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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 22, 1997Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 12:43 PM CDT for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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 22, 1997, 12:43 PM CDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
6 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 17:43 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 12:00Z, 5.7 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1204 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 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
1204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
9.9

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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 Jun 22, 10:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 10:28 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble4 hr
Jun 22, 12:47 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble6 hr
Jun 22, 2:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMason, Menard5 hr
Jun 22, 2:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton5 hr
Jun 22, 4:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble, Mason12 hr
Jun 22, 7:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble5 hr
Jun 22, 3:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMason6 hr
Jun 22, 5:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMenard5 hr
Jun 22, 6:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble7 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.