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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 23, 1998Sutton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 1998, 9:43 AM CDT for Sutton County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 23, 1998, 9:43 AM CDT (14:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Sutton County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 1998-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 479 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 9:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble5 hr
Aug 23, 5:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.