Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1990, 9:03 AM CDT for Crockett County, Schleicher County, Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1990, 9:03 AM CDT (14:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crockett County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 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 221406 FFWSJT TXC105-413-435-222000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 903 AM CDT SAT SEP 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN TEXAS ...SOUTHERN CROCKETT COUNTY...SCHLEICHER COUNTY...SUTTON COUNTY AT 900 AM CDT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICES IN SUTTON AND SCHLEICHER COUNTIES AND THE DPS OFFICE IN CROCKETT COUNTY REPORT MANY ROADS IN THOSE COUNTIES CLOSED BY FLOOD WATERS. AT 855 AM CDT SAN ANGELO RADAR SHOWS LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVIER RAIN ACROSS EASTERN CROCKETT AND WESTERN SUTTON AND SCHLEICHER COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AMONG THE ROADS CLOSED ARE FM 2083...FM 1973 AND STATE HIGHWAY 163 IN CROCKETT COUNTY. IN SUTTON COUNTY FM 2129...FM 189...FM 1691 AND FM 2596...AND IN SCHLEICHER COUNTY FM 2129 AND FM 2596. WITH THE CONTINUING RAINFALL ACROSS THESE AREAS ADDITIONAL RUNOFF WILL OCCUR. 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 10:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 5 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 5 hr |
| Sep 22, 2:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 5 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.