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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 19, 1996Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 1996, 11:22 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 118 min. 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 19, 1996, 11:22 PM CDT (04:22 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 1996, 1:20 AM CDT
In force
118 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Kimble County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 349 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 670 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble32 min
Sep 19, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble47 min
Sep 20, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch63 min
Sep 20, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba33 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.