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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 25, 1998Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 1998, 1:29 AM CDT for Crockett 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 25, 1998, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1998, 5:30 AM CDT
In force
4 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 06:29 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, 6.5 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 1998-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 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 1998-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 Aug 24, 8:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 8:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher2 hr
Aug 25, 4:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTIrion2 hr
Aug 25, 5:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett3 hr
Aug 25, 6:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTIrion2 hr
Aug 25, 7:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green3 hr
Aug 25, 8:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett4 hr
Aug 25, 8:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTIrion3 hr
Aug 25, 9:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSchleicher3 hr
Aug 25, 9:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTIrion3 hr
Aug 25, 10:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton3 hr
Aug 25, 11:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher5 hr
Aug 25, 1:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSutton4 hr
Aug 25, 4:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher, Sutton3 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.