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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 29, 1999Sterling County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1999, 1:06 AM CDT for Sterling 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 29, 1999, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1999, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Sterling County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 1999-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1308 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 1999-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1529 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling64 min
May 29, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green66 min
May 29, 12:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTom Green3 hr
May 29, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMitchell63 min
May 29, 5:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMcCulloch114 min
May 29, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMcCulloch49 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.