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Flood Watch 2, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flood watch at Oct 25, 2023, 2:33 PM CDT for 20 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 25, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 26 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2023, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 25, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2023, 6:14 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Oct 25, 1:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 1:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Real | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.