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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 24, 2013Uvalde County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2013, 9:57 AM CDT for Uvalde County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2013, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2013, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Uvalde County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 10:00 AM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	4 Ne Uvalde, TX	HACIENDA ROAD AND HWY 90 CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -290 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

451 
WGUS54 KEWX 241457
FFWEWX
TXC463-241600-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0009.130524T1457Z-130524T1600Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
957 AM CDT FRI MAY 24 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL UVALDE COUNTY...

* UNTIL 1100 AM CDT.

* AT 955 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE   
  DETERMINED THAT SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCE FLASH 
  FLOODING AROUND THE CITY OF UVALDE. RADAR ESTIMATES AND GROUND
  REPORTS SUGGEST THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AROUND 
  UVALDE SINCE 7 AM.

* RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO
  OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...  
  UVALDE AND KNIPPA. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAIN WILL FLOOD CREEKS, STREAMS, STREET
INTERSECTIONS, CULVERTS AND UNDERPASSES. LOW LYING PLACES THAT
NORMALLY FLOOD COULD BECOME DEATH TRAPS. DO NOT CROSS ANY FLOODED
AREA. TURN AROUND DON'T DROWN.

&&

LAT...LON 2934 9954 2922 9967 2917 9981 2925 9986
      2934 9977

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 1:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	46 min
May 24, 2:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards	52 min
May 24, 3:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Real, Val Verde	3 hr
May 24, 3:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Edwards, Real	43 min
May 24, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	37 min
May 24, 4:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
May 24, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney, Real, Uvalde	67 min
May 24, 5:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Real	3 hr
May 24, 5:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney	59 min
May 24, 6:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney	108 min
May 24, 6:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde	70 min
May 24, 7:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Maverick	58 min
May 24, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Zavala	40 min
May 24, 8:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Real, Uvalde	106 min
May 24, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Kinney, Uvalde	45 min
May 24, 9:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Uvalde	4 hr
May 24, 10:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio	41 min
May 24, 10:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Real, Uvalde	108 min
May 24, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio, Medina	43 min
May 24, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar	48 min
May 24, 11:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa	41 min
May 24, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	45 min
May 24, 12:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	105 min
May 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Comal	46 min
May 24, 1:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar	3 hr
May 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe	117 min
May 24, 2:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa	2 hr
May 24, 2:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet	3 hr
May 24, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Travis	4 hr
May 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Karnes	67 min
May 24, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Hays	47 min
May 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Travis, Williamson	107 min
May 24, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Wilson	115 min
May 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Burnet, Llano, Travis, Williamson	116 min

Nearby

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.