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River Flood Warning 35, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

June 9, 2010Guadalupe County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this river flood warning at Jun 9, 2010, 9:01 AM CDT for Guadalupe County, Texas. It took effect at Jun 9, 2010, 2:33 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2010, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 9, 2010, 2:33 PM CDT
Expired: Jun 9, 2010, 9:38 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Flood severity: Moderate

County Guadalupe County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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 river

Written for the forecast point Guadalupe River at Seguin (SEGT2).

Action stage: 17 ft
Minor stage: 19 ft
Moderate stage: 22 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 08169740, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Jun 9, 8:58 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:58 AM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 6:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
642 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010

TXZ172-173-189>194-205>209-220>225-101145-
BURNET-WILLIAMSON-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-BEXAR-
COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-
DE WITT-LAVACA-
642 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL GENERATE CONTINUED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE DAY. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE HEAVY
WITH FLASH FLOODING THE GREATEST THREAT. THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH
AREA IS GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM CHARLOTTE IN
SOUTHWEST ATASCOSA COUNTY TO BOERNE TO BURNET. RAINFALL TOTALS
WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM 2 TO 4 INCHES WITH ISOLATED 5 TO 8 INCH
AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

TXZ171-183>188-202>204-217>219-228-101145-
LLANO-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-GILLESPIE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-FRIO-DIMMIT-
642 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED
TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
648 AM CDT WED JUN 09 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0644 AM     HEAVY RAIN       GEORGETOWN              30.65N  97.69W
06/09/2010  M3.00 INCH       WILLIAMSON         TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

            2.8 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVERNIGHT ENDING AT 630 AM THIS
            MORNING.

&&

EVENT NUMBER EWX1000388

JME

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:10 AM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
710 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010

TXZ173-189>194-205>209-220>225-091415-
WILLIAMSON-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-BEXAR-COMAL-
GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-
DE WITT-LAVACA-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GEORGETOWN...BOERNE...BLANCO...
SAN MARCOS...AUSTIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...SAN ANTONIO...
NEW BRAUNFELS...SEGUIN...LOCKHART...LA GRANGE...PLEASANTON...
FLORESVILLE...KARNES CITY...GONZALES...CUERO...HALLETTSVILLE
710 AM CDT WED JUN 9 2010

...RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS COMAL COUNTY...

LISTED ARE 24 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS COURTESY OF THE GBRA
ENDING AT 7 AM.

GBRA TOWER...3.05
STARTZVILLE...6.68
HOFFMAN ROAD...3.25
THIRD CROSSING...6.83
WAGGNER RANCH...6.15
STENEN ROAD...2.31
BEAR CREEK...10.28
SHADOW HILLS...8.29
NBU TOWER ON GERONIMO CREEK...1.34
FM 3009 ON DRY COMAL CREEK...2.78
KRUGER CANYON ROAD ON DRY COMAL CREEK...5.15
BRESKY ROAD ON ISSAC CREEK...4.47

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
713 AM CDT WED JUN 09 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0658 AM     HEAVY RAIN       10 NNW AUSTIN           30.40N  97.80W
06/09/2010  M2.54 INCH       TRAVIS             TX   CO-OP OBSERVER

            2.54 INCHES OF RAINFALL FOR 6 HOUR PERIOD BETWEEN
            MIDNIGHT AND 6AM FROM AUSTIN GREAT HILLS NWS CO-OP
            OBSERVER

&&

EVENT NUMBER EWX1000389

ATT

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
737 AM CDT WED JUN 09 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0734 AM     FLASH FLOOD      5 W NEW BRAUNFELS       29.70N  98.20W
06/09/2010                   COMAL              TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

            4 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 6 HOURS. LOW WATER
            CROSSINGS ON FM 1863 ARE FLOODED. STAFF GAUGE ON THE DRY
            COMAL CREEK IS AT 5 FT.

&&

EVENT NUMBER EWX1000390

JME

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:21 AM CDT, 40 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Wilson	2 hr
Jun 8, 9:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 8, 10:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	110 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	4 hr
Jun 9, 12:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Guadalupe, Wilson	3 hr
Jun 9, 1:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	2 hr
Jun 9, 2:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	4 hr
Jun 9, 3:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Williamson	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	4 hr
Jun 9, 4:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	4 hr
Jun 9, 4:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Travis, Williamson	117 min
Jun 9, 5:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	3 hr
Jun 9, 6:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Caldwell, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	2 hr
Jun 9, 6:59 AM CDT	Hydrologic Warning	EWX	Comal, Gonzales, Guadalupe	8 hr
Jun 9, 7:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Lee	119 min
Jun 9, 7:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe, Hays	4 hr
Jun 9, 8:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	13 hr
Jun 9, 8:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Comal, Guadalupe	13 hr
Jun 9, 8:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales, Guadalupe	61 min
Jun 9, 9:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Lee	2 hr
Jun 9, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca	54 min
Jun 9, 9:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca	110 min
Jun 9, 10:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Gonzales	34 hr
Jun 9, 10:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Gonzales	58 hr
Jun 9, 10:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	61 min
Jun 9, 10:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Fayette	2 hr
Jun 9, 1:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bastrop, Fayette	107 min
Jun 9, 2:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Llano	2 hr
Jun 9, 3:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	108 min
Jun 9, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	53 min
Jun 9, 4:13 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt	3 days
Jun 9, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie	47 min

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010 Every river flood warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.