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Areal Flood Advisory 290, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX

November 3, 2021Bandera County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Texas

NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Nov 3, 2021, 10:24 AM CDT for Bandera County, Kendall County, Kerr County, Texas. It was in force for 111 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 3, 2021, 10:24 AM CDT (15:24 UTC)
Expired
Nov 3, 2021, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
111 min
Issued by
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Bandera County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 298 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-11-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1028 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2021-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1028 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 Nov 3, 6:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 6:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 3, 3:21 AM CDT, 7 hours 3 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
321 AM CDT Wed Nov 3 2021

TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-040830-
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-
321 AM CDT Wed Nov 3 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for South-Central Texas..

.DAY ONE...Today And Tonight.

Locally heavy rainfall of 1 to 2 inches is possible today into
this evening. WPC has indicated a Marginal Risk of Excessive
rainfall along and east of a Mountain Home to Sabinal to Carrizo
Springs line. Due to lingering moist soils, cannot rule out some
spots of urban and small stream flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not anticipated.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 3, 10:07 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXKerr87 min
Nov 3, 2:13 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryEWXBexar2 hr
Nov 3, 3:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementEWXKarnes39 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Texas, 2021Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.