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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 28, 1996Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 1996, 1:24 AM CST for Kimble 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
Oct 28, 1996, 1:24 AM CST (07:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1996, 4:20 AM CST
In force
3 hr
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 07:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1812 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.7

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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
Oct 27, 6:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch48 min
Oct 28, 1:40 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTTom Green3 hr
Oct 28, 5:39 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTMason3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.