Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1990, 4:27 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1990, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1990, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 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 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 1312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 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 032127 FFWSJT TXC267-040930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 427 PM CDT THU MAY 3 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN KIMBLE COUNTY THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN KIMBLE COUNTY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT UNTIL 430 AM CDT FRIDAY. RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS LAST NIGHT CONTINUES OVER SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST KIMBLE COUNTY AND HAS CLOSED SEVERAL HIGHWAYS AND ROADS. THOSE ROADS AND HIGHWAYS CLOSED ARE US 377 SOUTH OF JUNCTION TOWARD ROCKSPRINGS...FM 385...FM 2169 AND PARK ROAD 73. FARM TO MARKET ROAD 479 WAS OPENED TODAY...HOWEVER...FURTHER ROAD OPENINGS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED UNTIL THE WEEKEND. PERSONS TRAVELING IN SOUTHERN KIMBLE COUNTY AND PLANNING TO USE ANY OF THESE ROADS SHOULD SELECT AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. IT IS ADVISED THAT THESE FLOODED ROADS ARE NOT PASSABLE AND THAT IT IS DANGEROUS TO ATTEMPT TO DRIVE PAST THE BARRICADES AND INTO THE FLOODED ROADWAY. STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 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 RISEING 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 2 hr |
| 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 |
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.