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Flood Watch 3, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this flood watch at Jul 3, 2025, 1:18 PM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2025, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 354 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
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 3, 6:19 AM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 6:19 AM CDT, 6 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | EWX | Williamson | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 5:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | EWX | Burnet | 2 hr |
Nearby
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.