Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 1990, 7:25 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1990, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kimble County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 030026 FFWSJT TXC267-030230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 725 PM CDT WED MAY 2 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...KIMBLE COUNTY THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR KIMBLE COUNTY CONTINUES IN EFFECT THIS EVENING. SEVERAL ROADS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN KIMBLE COUNTY REMAIN UNDER WATER AND CLOSED AS OF 705 PM CDT. THE TORRENTIAL RAINS OF THIS MORNING HAVE BEEN SLOW TO RUN OFF AND MAY TAKE SEVERAL MORE HOURS BEFORE ROADS BECOME PASSABLE AGAIN. THE CLOSED ROADS ARE US 377 SOUTH OF JUNCTION...AND FARM TO MARKET ROADS 385...479 AND 2169. NO PRECIPITATION WAS DETECTED IN KIMBLE COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING... HOWEVER...THE PROBABILITY OF MORE RAIN TONIGHT IS HIGH. ADDITIONAL RAINS ON THE ALREADY SOAKED GROUND WILL RESULT IN ALMOST TOTAL RUNOFF AND MORE FLOODING COULD OCCUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND WESTERN CONCHO VALLEY EARLY THIS EVENING AND COULD MOVE ACROSS THE HILL COUNTRY LATER TONIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING XWATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 67 min |
| May 2, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 59 min |
| May 2, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 5 hr |
| May 3, 4:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 4 hr |
| May 3, 7:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 6 hr |
| May 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 12 hr |
Nearby
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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.