Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 1990, 4:12 PM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1990, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1990, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sutton 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 062141 FFWSJT TXC327-435-070315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 412 PM CDT MON AUG 6 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ...MENARD COUNTY...SUTTON COUNTY AT 430 PM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWED NO RAIN FALLING IN EITHER SUTTON OR MENARD COUNTY, HOWEVER DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS OF THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS SOME ROADS REMAIN CLOSED BY HIGH WATER. THESE ROADS INCLUDE FM 864 IN BOTH SUTTON AND MENARD COUNTIES NEAR FT MCKAVETT, ALSO FM 2092 AND FM 1311 IN MENARD COUNTY. THE SAN SABA RIVER IN MENARD COUNTY IS STILL VERY HIGH BUT WITHIN ITS BANKS AT MENARD. IN SUTTON COUNTY HIGHWAY 189 TO JUNO IS CLOSED. OTHER ROADS THAT WERE CLOSED EARLIER ARE NOW REPORTED OPEN BUT SOME HAVE SUSTAINED DAMAGE FROM THE FLOOD WATERS. ANYONE PLANNING TRAVEL IN SUTTON, SCHLEICHER OR MENARD COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR WATER ACROSS ROADWAYS AND DAMAGED ROADS AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NEVER IGNORE WARNING SIGNS OR BARRICADES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING. MOST 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 WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher, Sutton | 9 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 9 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher, Sutton | 10 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 6 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.