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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 2000, 10:46 AM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2000, 10:46 AM CDT (15:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2000, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Taylor County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1777 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 171549 FFWSJT TXC441-171745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1046 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1043 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING AT PINE STREET UNDERPASS IN ABILENE. SEVERAL OTHER UNDERPASSES IN THE CITY ARE REPORTED FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. THE CEDAR CREEK AREA IS REPORTING FLOODING. * RAINFALL TOTALING OVER 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. LAT...LON 3242 9992 3229 9976 3240 9969 3247 9987 15
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 Oct 17, 9:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 9:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 928 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000 TWO LINES OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND STORMS CONTINUE TO CONVERGE FROM THE NORTHWEST AND THE SOUTHWEST ON THE CONCHO VALLEY. HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF THE DAY THROUGHOUT ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. ISSUED A SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR CROCKETT COUNTY. .SJT...NONE. 15
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-171440- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 545 AM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY...MAINLY WEST OF A BROWNWOOD MASON LINE. AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL DRIFT SOUTH ACROSS NEW MEXICO TODAY. DISTURBANCES FROM THIS SYSTEM WILL INTERACT WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE OVER WEST TEXAS TO HELP GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS COULD APPROACH SEVERE CRITERIA...HOWEVER THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN ISOLATED. GUSTY WINDS NEAR 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY IN THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.. THIS OUTLOOK WILL RESUME SCHEDULED ISSUANCE ON MARCH 15 2001. HOWEVER... THIS OUTLOOK WILL CONTINUE TO BE ISSUED AS NEEDED WHEN THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. 20
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 28 min |
| Oct 17, 12:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 3 hr |
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.