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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

May 13, 2015Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2015, 12:21 PM CDT for Bastrop County, Lee County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr. 6 reports 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 13, 2015, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2015, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bastrop County, TX, Lee County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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 was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 12:45 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Elgin, TX	1333 BLOCK OF OLD SAYER ROAD IS FLOODED...ALSO FM812 NEAR THE COUNTY LINE ON THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY HAS SECTIONS FLOODED WITH WATER OVER THE ROADWAY
May 13, 12:50 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 1	Elgin, TX	RAIN FELL IN THE LAST HOUR
May 13, 12:50 PM CDT	HEAVY RAIN 1	Elgin, TX	RAIN FELL IN THE LAST HOUR...OCCURRING AT HWY 95 AND FISCHER
May 13, 2:35 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Elgin, TX	ROAD CLOSURES NEAR ELGIN DUE TO HIGH WATER...INCLUDING 2100 UPPER ELGIN RIVER ROAD...LAZY RIVER ROAD...AND RACCOON ROAD. SEVERAL OTHER ROADS HAVE WATER OVER THEM BUT ARE PASSABLE
May 13, 2:35 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Elgin, TX	SEVERAL ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER NEAR ELGIN AND AROUND BASTROP COUNTY INCLUDING WOODY LANE AT FM1704...YOUNG PRAIRIE AT FM1704...THE 370 BLOCK NEAR THE NORTH COUNTY LINE
May 13, 3:00 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Dime Box, TX	FM141 CLOSE TO DIME BOX CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER...ALSO FM1624 CLOSE TO LEXINGTON CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROADWAY...AND SEVERAL OTHER COUNTY ROADS ARE CLOSED

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

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

865 
WGUS54 KEWX 131721
FFWEWX
TXC021-287-132015-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0021.150513T1721Z-150513T2015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
1221 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BASTROP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  LEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
    
* AT 1218 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM  LINE 
  APPROACHING THE WARNED AREA. WITH ALREADY SATURATED SOILS FROM 
  PREVIOUS RAINFALL THIS PAST WEEK AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES 
  OF RAIN OVER THE NEXT 2 HOURS...FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO 
  BEGIN SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ELGIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...LEXINGTON...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATE...
  TANGLEWOOD...FEDOR...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATES...CAMP SWIFT...DIME BOX...
  PAIGE...WYLDWOOD...MANHEIM...BLUE...LINCOLN...NORTHRUP...MCDADE...
  OLD DIME BOX...LEO AND KNOBB SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3025 9669 3024 9674 3020 9674 3011 9685
      3007 9693 3008 9741 3019 9752 3041 9737
      3040 9733 3045 9717 3056 9697 3054 9692
      3046 9690 3039 9679 3032 9674 3032 9669
      3029 9665

$$

ALLEN

2 follow-up statements

380 
WGUS74 KEWX 131908
FFSEWX

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
208 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015

TXC021-287-132015-
/O.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150513T2015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BASTROP TX-LEE TX-
208 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR
NORTHERN BASTROP AND LEE COUNTIES...

AT 207 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED
AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
ELGIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...LEXINGTON...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATE...
TANGLEWOOD...FEDOR...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATES...CAMP SWIFT...DIME BOX...
PAIGE...WYLDWOOD...MANHEIM...BLUE...LINCOLN...NORTHRUP...MCDADE...OLD
DIME BOX...LEO AND KNOBB SPRINGS.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ANOTHER INCH TO INCHA ND ONE HALF ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3025 9669 3024 9674 3020 9674 3011 9685
      3007 9693 3008 9741 3019 9752 3041 9737
      3040 9733 3045 9717 3056 9697 3054 9692
      3046 9690 3039 9679 3032 9674 3032 9669
      3029 9665

$$

ALLEN

356 
WGUS54 KEWX 131942
FFWEWX
TXC021-287-132315-
/O.EXT.KEWX.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-150513T2315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
242 PM CDT WED MAY 13 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BASTROP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
  LEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 237 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED MODERATE RAIN 
  ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THAT HAS RESULTED IN NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSERS 
  ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH BASTROP COUNTY. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN 
  HAVE ALREADY FALLEN WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF 
  RAINFALL THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THIS WILL COMPOUND THE 
  ONGOING FLOODING SITUATION.  

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ELGIN...BASTROP...GIDDINGS...LEXINGTON...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATE...
  TANGLEWOOD...FEDOR...CIRCLE D-KC ESTATES...CAMP SWIFT...DIME BOX...
  PAIGE...WYLDWOOD...MANHEIM...BLUE...LINCOLN...NORTHRUP...MCDADE...
  OLD DIME BOX...LEO AND KNOBB SPRINGS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

PLEASE REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3025 9669 3024 9674 3020 9674 3011 9685
      3007 9693 3008 9741 3019 9752 3041 9737
      3040 9733 3045 9717 3056 9697 3054 9692
      3046 9690 3039 9679 3032 9674 3032 9669
      3029 9665

$$

ALLEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 5:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	3 hr
May 13, 5:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Val Verde	3 hr
May 13, 7:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Maverick	3 hr
May 13, 7:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde	3 hr
May 13, 7:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala	66 min
May 13, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Real	63 min
May 13, 7:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Uvalde	57 min
May 13, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	57 min
May 13, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Frio, Medina, Zavala	65 min
May 13, 8:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera	27 min
May 13, 9:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	118 min
May 13, 9:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall	53 min
May 13, 9:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio	53 min
May 13, 9:46 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Medina, Uvalde	3 hr
May 13, 9:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Bexar, Frio, Medina	52 min
May 13, 10:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Hays	62 min
May 13, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Karnes, Wilson	65 min
May 13, 10:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Blanco, Hays	28 min
May 13, 11:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Comal, Hays, Travis, Williamson	39 min
May 13, 11:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	3 hr
May 13, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Travis, Williamson	59 min
May 13, 12:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays and 2 more	3 hr
May 13, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	EWX	Gonzales	42 min
May 13, 1:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Atascosa, Karnes, Wilson	4 hr
May 13, 2:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina and 1 more	3 hr
May 13, 4:11 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson	2 hr
May 13, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	40 min
May 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	50 min
May 13, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	29 min
May 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	48 min
May 13, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.