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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2016, 5:50 PM CDT for Fayette 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
- May 31, 2016, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Fayette County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 2719 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
366
WGUS54 KEWX 312250
FFWEWX
TXC149-010145-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0051.160531T2250Z-160601T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
550 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
* AT 548 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF
RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. IN ADDITION...MANY LOCATIONS ARE
SATURATED DUE TO RECENT SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LA GRANGE...SCHULENBURG...FLATONIA...FAYETTEVILLE...ROUND TOP...
MULDOON... CISTERN...CARMINE AND WILLOW SPRINGS.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 2963 9688 2963 9714 2965 9714 2978 9732
3005 9703 3004 9702 3011 9685 3016 9680
3014 9676 3017 9669 3015 9668 3014 9665
3008 9663 2996 9657
$$
PLATT1 follow-up statement
091
WGUS74 KEWX 312349
FFSEWX
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX
649 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
TXC149-010145-
/O.CON.KEWX.FF.W.0051.000000T0000Z-160601T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
FAYETTE TX-
649 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR
FAYETTE COUNTY...
AT 646 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN NEAR ROUND TOP. FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LA GRANGE...SCHULENBURG...FLATONIA...FAYETTEVILLE...ROUND TOP...
MULDOON AND CARMINE.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 1 INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY. RIVER BANKS AND CULVERTS CAN BECOME
UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE.
&&
LAT...LON 2963 9688 2963 9714 2965 9714 2994 9709
3005 9703 3004 9702 3011 9685 3016 9680
3014 9676 3017 9669 3015 9668 3014 9665
3008 9663 2996 9657
$$
PLATTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 10:00 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 15 hr |
| May 31, 10:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Llano | 48 min |
| May 31, 10:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 4 days |
| May 31, 11:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
| May 31, 11:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| May 31, 12:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 3 hr |
| May 31, 12:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| May 31, 12:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Medina, Uvalde | 4 hr |
| May 31, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Blanco | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Llano | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 20 hr |
| May 31, 2:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 22 hr |
| May 31, 2:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 4 days |
| May 31, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Comal | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:35 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 4 days |
| May 31, 2:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Hays | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Comal | 3 hr |
| May 31, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 64 min |
| May 31, 3:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Medina | 40 min |
| May 31, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Wilson | 65 min |
| May 31, 3:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Caldwell | 48 min |
| May 31, 3:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 18 hr |
| May 31, 4:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Comal, Guadalupe | 22 hr |
| May 31, 4:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Gonzales | 40 min |
| May 31, 4:10 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Caldwell | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Bastrop, Gonzales | 38 min |
| May 31, 4:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Wilson | 44 min |
| May 31, 4:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Atascosa, Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 16 hr |
| May 31, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes, Wilson | 32 min |
| May 31, 5:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 5:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco | 20 hr |
| May 31, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Karnes | 46 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.