Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 1990, 5:45 AM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1990, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1990, 11:45 AM 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 00:00Z, 10.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 191044 FFWSJT TXC435-191645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 545 AM CDT WED SEP 19 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ...SUTTON COUNTY EARLY THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING WATER CONTINUES TO RUN OVER FARM TO MARKET ROAD 189 AT THE SUTTON / VAL VERDE COUNTY LINE WHERE THE DRY DEVILS RIVER CROSSES. FARM TO MARKET ROAD 864 IN NORTHEASTERN SUTTON COUNTY ALSO REMAINS CLOSED THIS MORNING. THESE TWO ROADS MAY REMAIN CLOSED TODAY AND POSSIBLY LONGER IF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS FALL ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS IN THESE WATERSHEDS. A TROPICAL DISTURBANCE MOVED NORTHWESTWARD INTO MEXICO OVERNIGHT AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHWEST TODAY SPREADING MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR UP THE RIO GRANDE RIVER INTO THE SOUTHERN AND SOUTH- EASTERN CONCHO VALLEY TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY BRINGING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS TO THAT AREA ALREADY SATURATED BY 5 TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINS WILL FALL EAST OF SUTTON...SCHLEICHER...AND MENARD COUNTIES...BUT PERSONS IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN CONCHO VALLEY ARE URGED TO PLAN AHEAD... ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY SATURATED...AND BE READY FOR MORE RAIN. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THE DRY DEVILS...NORTH LLANO...AND SAN SABA RIVERS AND TRIBUTARIES OF THESE RIVER SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RISING WATERS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION. THESE RIVER ARE ALREADY RUNNING WELL ABOVE NORMAL AND ADDITIONAL RUNOFF COULD CAUSE RAPID RISES ON THESE RIVERS. 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 QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 11:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 5:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 4 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.