Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2018
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 7, 2018, 11:54 PM CDT for Edwards County, Real County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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
- Oct 7, 2018, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2018, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Edwards County, TX, Real County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 2:09 AM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 10 Sse Rocksprings, TX | DRIVETEXAS.ORG REPORTING STATE HIGHWAY 55 CLOSED IN BETWEEN ROCKSPRINGS AND BARKSDALE DUE TO FLOODING |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1027 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted.
557
WGUS54 KEWX 080454
FFWEWX
TXC137-385-080745-
/O.NEW.KEWX.FF.W.0048.181008T0454Z-181008T0745Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
1154 PM CDT SUN OCT 7 2018
The National Weather Service in Austin San Antonio has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
South central Edwards County in south central Texas...
Western Real County in south central Texas...
* Until 245 AM CDT
* At 1151 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across southern Edwards and western Real Counties. Two
to four inches of rain have already fallen the past several hours.
Flash flooding is expected over most of these areas.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Camp Wood, Vance and Barksdale.
Additional rainfall amounts of one to two inches are possible over
these areas the next several hours.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
A Flash Flood Warning means that flooding is imminent or occurring.
If you are in the warned area move to higher ground immediately.
Residents living along streams and creeks should take immediate
precautions to protect life and property.
&&
LAT...LON 3001 9987 2962 9996 2962 10028 2963 10032
3005 10005
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 40 min |
| Oct 7, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr, Real | 46 min |
| Oct 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Real | 32 min |
| Oct 7, 8:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Uvalde | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kerr, Real | 27 min |
| Oct 7, 9:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 30 min |
| Oct 7, 9:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Real | 58 min |
| Oct 7, 10:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real, Uvalde | 33 min |
| Oct 7, 10:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real, Uvalde | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 10:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr, Real | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 7, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 30 min |
| Oct 7, 11:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Real | 37 min |
| Oct 8, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 12:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Edwards | 28 min |
| Oct 8, 2:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 55 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 7:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 32 hr |
| Oct 8, 7:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 hr |
| Oct 8, 7:25 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 3 days |
| Oct 8, 11:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Llano | 57 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 3 hr |
| Oct 8, 5:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Val Verde | 38 min |
| Oct 8, 6:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | EWX | Kerr | 15 hr |
| Oct 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 54 min |
| Oct 8, 6:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Kerr | 5 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.