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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 14, 1996Coleman County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 14, 1996, 8:27 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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: Sep 14, 1996, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Coleman County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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.

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 14, 2:04 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 2:04 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 14, 2:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 14, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	54 min
Sep 14, 9:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Sutton	3 hr
Sep 14, 10:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Crockett	3 hr
Sep 14, 11:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Coleman	3 hr
Sep 15, 12:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	3 hr
Sep 15, 2:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Shackelford	91 min
Sep 15, 2:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	2 hr
Sep 15, 2:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Shackelford	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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.