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Areal Flood Advisory 113, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 3, 2016, 8:02 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2016, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bastrop County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jun 3, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 6:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016 TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-042045- LLANO-BURNET-WILLIAMSON-VAL VERDE-EDWARDS-REAL-KERR-BANDERA- GILLESPIE-KENDALL-BLANCO-HAYS-TRAVIS-BASTROP-LEE-KINNEY-UVALDE- MEDINA-BEXAR-COMAL-GUADALUPE-CALDWELL-FAYETTE-MAVERICK-ZAVALA- FRIO-ATASCOSA-WILSON-KARNES-GONZALES-DE WITT-LAVACA-DIMMIT- 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WITH RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. THESE RATES IN COMBINATION WITH SATURATED SOILS WILL RESULT IN RAPID FLASH FLOODING. ALSO...RAPID RISES ON ALREADY ELEVATED RIVERS AND STREAMS ARE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT...A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY WILL BECOME MORE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED ON SUNDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WILL BE POSSIBLE...HOWEVER THIS POTENTIAL SHOULD WANE BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN AND FLOOD THREAT...A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... PLEASE REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:16 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 10:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 4 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:49 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 4 days |
| Jun 4, 12:50 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 65 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 54 hr |
| Jun 4, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Gonzales, Travis | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell, Hays | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Guadalupe | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Kendall | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes, Wilson | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.