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River Flood Warning 40, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

July 2, 2010Val Verde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this river flood warning at Jul 2, 2010, 9:23 PM CDT for Val Verde County, Texas. It took effect at Jul 3, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2010, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 3, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 4, 2010, 10:40 AM CDT
In force: 34 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Flood severity: Minor

County Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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 Rio Grande at Del Rio (DLRT2).

Action stage: 4.2 ft
Minor stage: 4.5 ft
Moderate stage: 4.7 ft
Major stage: 7.5 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record, 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 Jul 2, 6:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 4:40 AM CDT, 16 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
440 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2010

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-031100-
LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA-
GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE-
MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA-
FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT-
440 AM CDT FRI JUL 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT...

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING.
LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE AND MAY
RESULT IN THE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 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
Jul 3, 1:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	9 hr
Jul 3, 10:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	2 hr
Jul 3, 4:47 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	EWX	Maverick	12 days

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.