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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS San Angelo, TX

March 25, 1997Shackelford County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 1997, 2:31 AM CST for Shackelford 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: Mar 25, 1997, 2:31 AM CST (08:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1997, 5:05 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Shackelford County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.9

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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 Mar 25, 2:15 AM CST, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 2:15 AM CST, 16 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
Mar 24, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mitchell	47 min
Mar 24, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	62 min
Mar 24, 10:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Nolan	46 min
Mar 24, 10:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	48 min
Mar 24, 10:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	49 min
Mar 24, 11:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	61 min
Mar 24, 11:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mitchell	50 min
Mar 24, 11:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	59 min
Mar 24, 11:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	62 min
Mar 24, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	66 min
Mar 24, 11:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Shackelford	46 min
Mar 25, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling, Tom Green	61 min
Mar 25, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	64 min
Mar 25, 12:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	61 min
Mar 25, 12:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Irion, Tom Green	62 min
Mar 25, 1:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	63 min
Mar 25, 1:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	62 min
Mar 25, 1:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	63 min
Mar 25, 1:46 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	59 min
Mar 25, 1:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	59 min
Mar 25, 2:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	65 min
Mar 25, 2:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SJT	Schleicher	66 min
Mar 25, 3:05 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	60 min
Mar 25, 3:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	61 min
Mar 25, 3:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	64 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.