Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT for Burnet County, Llano County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. 2 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 14, 2016, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Burnet County, TX, Llano County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 14, 3:38 PM CDT | HEAVY RAIN 1.68 | 3 S Horseshoe Bay, TX | RAIN AMOUNT FELL IN THE PAST 90 MINUTES |
| May 14, 4:05 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Marble Falls, TX | A FEW STREETS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER INCLUDING BROADWAY ST AND 9TH... AND 4TH AND 7TH ST |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WGUS54 KEWX 142021
FFWEWX
TXC053-299-150015-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0018.160514T2021Z-160515T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
321 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BURNET COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
EASTERN LLANO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 319 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING AND
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA OF BURNET AND EASTERN
LLANO COUNTIES. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN...
AND ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE OVER THE AREA AND
PRODUCE ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED
TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KINGSLAND...MARBLE FALLS...BURNET...BERTRAM...BUCHANAN DAM...
GAINESVILLE...GRANITE SHOALS...HORSESHOE BAY...MEADOWLAKES...HIGHLAND
HAVEN...BLUFFTON...SPICEWOOD...OATMEAL...SHADY GROVE...INKS LAKE STATE
PARK...STOLZ...WATSON...LAKE VICTOR...BRIGGS AND TOW.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
&&
LAT...LON 3103 9790 3090 9783 3079 9796 3050 9812
3048 9812 3049 9810 3047 9810 3043 9813
3050 9840 3050 9861 3092 9855 3093 9842
3094 9841 3096 9845 3098 9844 3101 9846
3103 9844
$$
MO1 follow-up statement
184
WGUS74 KEWX 142130
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016
TXC299-142135-
/O.CAN.KEWX.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160515T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LLANO TX-
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EASTERN LLANO COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
ONLY MINOR RUNOFF CONCERNS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHEAST LLANO
COUNTY...WHERE WHERE THE HEAVY RAIN THREAT IS EXPECTED TO SHIFT
SOUTH. THUS FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED OVER LLANO COUNTY.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3103 9790 3090 9783 3079 9796 3043 9813
3049 9835 3056 9835 3057 9841 3067 9844
3068 9840 3070 9842 3074 9837 3075 9843
3079 9843 3083 9838 3083 9842 3088 9846
3094 9841 3101 9846 3103 9844
$$
TXC053-150015-
/O.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-160515T0015Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BURNET TX-
430 PM CDT SAT MAY 14 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR
BURNET COUNTY...
AT 425 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE TOWN OF BURNET TO THE
COLORADO RIVER NEAR THE TRAVIS COUNTY LINE. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY
OCCURRING OVER MANY PORTIONS OF BURNET COUNTY ALONG AND EAST OF
HIGHWAY 281.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
KINGSLAND...MARBLE FALLS...BURNET...BERTRAM...BUCHANAN DAM...GRANITE
SHOALS...HORSESHOE BAY...MEADOWLAKES...HIGHLAND HAVEN...SPICEWOOD...
BRIGGS...MAHOMET...SMITHWICK...OATMEAL...SHADY GROVE...INKS LAKE STATE
PARK...SUNNYLANE...JOPPA...WATSON AND LAKE VICTOR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
&&
LAT...LON 3103 9790 3090 9783 3079 9796 3043 9813
3049 9835 3056 9835 3057 9841 3067 9844
3068 9840 3070 9842 3074 9837 3075 9843
3079 9843 3083 9838 3083 9842 3088 9846
3094 9841 3101 9846 3103 9844
$$
MOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 49 min |
| May 14, 7:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| May 14, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Uvalde | 46 min |
| May 14, 11:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Zavala | 43 min |
| May 14, 11:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit | 52 min |
| May 14, 11:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Frio | 42 min |
| May 14, 12:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Dimmit | 42 min |
| May 14, 12:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 38 min |
| May 14, 12:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala | 3 hr |
| May 14, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 50 min |
| May 14, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 42 min |
| May 14, 1:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 14, 1:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Frio | 3 hr |
| May 14, 2:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 14, 2:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet, Llano | 3 hr |
| May 14, 3:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| May 14, 3:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 52 min |
| May 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Williamson | 4 hr |
| May 14, 4:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Travis | 2 hr |
| May 14, 4:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 14, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Fayette | 44 min |
| May 14, 4:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| May 14, 5:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Williamson | 118 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.