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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2014, 12:34 PM CDT for Real County, Uvalde 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
- Aug 12, 2014, 12:34 PM CDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2014, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 1195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
646
WGUS54 KEWX 121734
FFWEWX
TXC385-463-122030-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0039.140812T1734Z-140812T2030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1234 PM CDT TUE AUG 12 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN REAL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEAKEY...
CENTRAL UVALDE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 1227 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
DETERMINED THAT RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE
1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHEASTERN REAL AND
NORTHERN UVALDE COUNTIES. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN
IS LIKELY TO FALL BY 3 PM.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TUFF...
REAGAN WELLS...GARNER STATE PARK...CONCAN AND RIO FRIO
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
CAMPERS AND HIKERS SHOULD AVOID STREAMS OR CREEKS.
&&
LAT...LON 2986 9977 2986 9961 2963 9961 2931 9952
2931 10001
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt | 52 min |
| Aug 11, 7:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | DeWitt | 112 min |
| Aug 11, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | DeWitt, Gonzales | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 11:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 44 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.