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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2008, 9:07 AM CDT for Fayette County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2008, 9:07 AM CDT (14:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Fayette County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 264 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KEWX 141409
FFWEWX
TXC149-141700-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0007.080514T1407Z-080514T1700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
907 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY...
* UNTIL NOON CDT.
* AT 900 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETERMINED THAT
RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE FLASH FLOODING
FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY...MAINLY NORTH OF
LA GRANGE. HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL PERSIST OVER THE WARNED AREA WITH
RAINFALL AMOUNTS RANGING FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE ROUND TOP.
WHEN WATER COVERS THE ROAD...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. THE LIFE YOU
SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN.
LAT...LON 2976 9706 3003 9704 3014 9684 3014 9683
3017 9679 3016 9677 3017 9669 3016 9666
3012 9664 3007 9663
TIME...MOT...LOC 1407Z 180DEG 0KT 3004 9685
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KEWX 141503
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1002 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
TXC149-141700-
/O.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080514T1700Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FAYETTE TX-
1002 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT FOR CENTRAL
FAYETTE COUNTY...
AT 954 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING
OVER THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY BETWEEN LA GRANGE AND
ROUND TOP. RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
DO NOT DRIVE WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. EVEN SUVS AND PICKUPS WILL
BE SWEPT AWAY BY AS LITTLE AS TWO FEET OF RUSHING WATER. TURN AROUND
DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 2976 9706 2993 9705 3017 9669 3016 9668
3016 9666 3013 9665 3012 9664 3007 9663
TIME...MOT...LOC 1502Z 180DEG 0KT 2998 9680
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 70 min |
| May 13, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 31 min |
| May 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 24 min |
| May 13, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 61 min |
| May 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Real | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 51 min |
| May 14, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick | 63 min |
| May 14, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 62 min |
| May 14, 2:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| May 14, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 47 min |
| May 14, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kinney, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 61 min |
| May 14, 3:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Real | 118 min |
| May 14, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 56 min |
| May 14, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 66 min |
| May 14, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kendall, Kerr | 25 min |
| May 14, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Kendall, Kerr and 1 more | 68 min |
| May 14, 4:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Williamson | 63 min |
| May 14, 4:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays | 69 min |
| May 14, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet, Travis, Williamson | 56 min |
| May 14, 5:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet | 116 min |
| May 14, 6:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Llano | 79 min |
| May 14, 8:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Hays, Travis | 37 min |
| May 14, 8:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 75 min |
| May 14, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 55 min |
| May 14, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Uvalde, Zavala | 62 min |
| May 14, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio, Medina, Uvalde, Zavala | 40 min |
| May 14, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 64 min |
| May 14, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Llano | 38 min |
| May 14, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio, Zavala | 42 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.