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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

January 8, 201316 counties in Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jan 8, 2013, 3:50 AM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 8, 2013, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2013, 3:50 AM CST (09:50 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2013, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 9, 2013, 11:28 AM CST
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Flood severity
None

Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jan 7, 11:49 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 11:49 PM CST, 4 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 4:06 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXKinney39 min
Jan 8, 4:58 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXVal Verde47 min
Jan 8, 5:33 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementEWXReal57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2013Every flash flood watch in 2013

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.