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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2014, 11:13 PM CDT for Bandera 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 18, 2014, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2014, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Bandera County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:13 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 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1083 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
685
WGUS54 KEWX 190413
FFWEWX
TXC019-190715-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0041.140819T0413Z-140819T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1113 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BANDERA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BANDERA...
* UNTIL 215 AM CDT
* AT 1109 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS HAVE
DETERMINED THAT RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.
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.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
&&
LAT...LON 2989 9918 2975 9886 2960 9890 2962 9895
2963 9909 2965 9910
$$1 follow-up statement
786
WGUS74 KEWX 190620
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
120 AM CDT TUE AUG 19 2014
TXC019-190630-
/O.CAN.KEWX.FF.W.0041.000000T0000Z-140819T0715Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BANDERA TX-
120 AM CDT TUE AUG 19 2014
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EASTERN BANDERA
COUNTY...
LAT...LON 2989 9918 2975 9886 2960 9890 2962 9895
2963 9909 2965 9910
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 48 min |
| Aug 18, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Aug 18, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bandera | 46 min |
| Aug 18, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 10:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 112 min |
| Aug 18, 11:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Uvalde | 112 min |
| Aug 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 12:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Kinney | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 3:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:57 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Uvalde | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bandera, Medina | 2 hr |
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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.