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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 31, 1999Throckmorton County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1999, 9:50 PM CDT for Throckmorton 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 31, 1999, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1999, 12:50 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Throckmorton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1985 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1999-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
1985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 31, 9:02 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 9:02 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 31, 6:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
600 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    10 S THROCKMORTON         TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/99   THROCKMORTON
Local storm report, May 31, 6:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
648 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0605 PM    15 S THROCKMORTON         TX   0.88 SIZE HAIL
05/31/99   THROCKMORTON

0638 PM    17 S THROCKMORTON         TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/99   THROCKMORTON                   BROKE CAR WINDSHIELD
Local storm report, May 31, 6:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
648 PM CDT MON MAY 31 1999

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0605 PM    15 S THROCKMORTON         TX   0.88 SIZE HAIL
05/31/99   THROCKMORTON

0638 PM    17 S THROCKMORTON         TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/99   THROCKMORTON                   BROKE CAR WINDSHIELD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling63 min
May 31, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell62 min
May 31, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke66 min
May 31, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTSterling64 min
May 31, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan96 min
May 31, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell65 min
May 31, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor65 min
May 31, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton65 min
May 31, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher50 min
May 31, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones49 min
May 31, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones60 min
May 31, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell65 min
May 31, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton65 min
May 31, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett93 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.