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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 26, 1998Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1998, 11:18 PM CDT for Crockett 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
May 26, 1998, 11:18 PM CDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1998, 2:20 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Crockett County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 1998-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2356 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1998-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
2356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1620 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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 May 26, 9:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
921 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1998

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION WILL NOT BE ISSUED TONIGHT DUE TO PRESS OF
SEVERE WEATHER.
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke64 min
May 26, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling61 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels63 min
May 26, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTom Green60 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTRunnels3 hr
May 26, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho, Tom Green80 min
May 26, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green91 min
May 26, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman64 min
May 26, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling65 min
May 26, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMitchell80 min
May 26, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels65 min
May 26, 8:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMitchell, Sterling3 hr
May 26, 9:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTConcho, Runnels, Tom Green4 hr
May 26, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho, Runnels, Tom Green62 min
May 26, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling64 min
May 26, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan, Coleman63 min
May 26, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher65 min
May 26, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett65 min
May 26, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Tom Green79 min
May 26, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown61 min
May 26, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTIrion66 min
May 26, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke80 min
May 26, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman65 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTColeman4 hr
May 26, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher96 min
May 26, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho96 min
May 26, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett80 min
May 26, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown62 min
May 26, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green66 min
May 26, 11:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTom Green112 min
May 26, 11:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown3 hr
May 26, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett64 min
May 27, 12:09 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett61 min
May 27, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Coleman49 min
May 27, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch, San Saba63 min
May 27, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton62 min

Nearby

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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.