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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 6, 1997Mitchell County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 1997, 5:57 AM CDT for Mitchell 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
Jun 6, 1997, 5:57 AM CDT (10:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1997, 8:55 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1997-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1261 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
1261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSJT 061058
FFWSJT
TXC335-061355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
557 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 855 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...MITCHELL COUNTY
 
AT 650 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MITCHELL COUNTY.  RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO
TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 5 AM CDT.  WITH
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS...AN
ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MITCHELL
COUNTY THIS MORNING.  THIS RAIN WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS
AND STREAMS...ESPECIALLY FROM COLORADO CITY SOUTHWARD ON HIGHWAYS
163 AND 208.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan49 min
Jun 6, 3:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor50 min
Jun 6, 4:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTFisher, Nolan3 hr
Jun 6, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan46 min
Jun 6, 4:31 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor3 hr
Jun 6, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor65 min
Jun 6, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMitchell47 min
Jun 6, 6:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown, San Saba3 hr
Jun 6, 7:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke, Runnels3 hr
Jun 6, 7:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown, Coleman3 hr
Jun 6, 7:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor2 hr
Jun 6, 8:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSan Saba77 min
Jun 6, 8:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba77 min
Jun 6, 8:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSan Saba3 hr
Jun 6, 8:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTColeman65 min
Jun 6, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman65 min
Jun 6, 12:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble, Mason, San Saba3 hr
Jun 6, 2:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSan Saba3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.