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Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 7, 1990Menard County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 7, 1990, 5:51 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 1990, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1990, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Menard 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1990-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 072254
FFWSJT
TXC327-435-081100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUSTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
551 PM CDT TUE AUG 7 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
 
IN  TEXAS
 
   ...MENARD COUNTY...SUTTON COUNTY
 
DUE TO CONTINUED RUNOFF FROM THE RECENT RAINS THE FOLLOWING ROADS ARE
STILL CLOSED...IN MENARD COUNTY FM 2092...1311 AND 864... IN SUTTON
COUNTY FM 189 AND 864.
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUIhCKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLOODING 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton8 hr
Aug 6, 10:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMenard8 hr
Aug 7, 5:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMenard6 hr
Aug 7, 5:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton6 hr
Aug 7, 11:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton6 hr
Aug 7, 11:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMenard6 hr
Aug 7, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton12 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.