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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 30, 1996Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT for Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1996, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1996, 1:55 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tom Green County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1874 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
1874 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1732 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 6:02 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett49 min
May 30, 9:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTSterling64 min
May 30, 11:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTRunnels3 hr
May 31, 7:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.