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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS San Angelo, TX

October 17, 2000Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 17, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT for Taylor 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
Oct 17, 2000, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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 12:00Z on 2000-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1777 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 12:00Z on 2000-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KSJT 171738
FFWSJT
TXC441-172100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1237 PM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 4 PM FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
     TAYLOR

INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
     VIEW...TYE...TUSCOLA...TRENT...POTOSI...MERKEL...LAWN...HAPPY
     VALLEY...DYESS AFB...BUFFALO GAP AND ABILENE

THIS FLOOD WARNING IS AN EXTENSION TO THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT 
EXPIRED AT 1245 PM. 

MAJOR STREET FLOODING CONTINUES IN THE CITY OF ABILENE...WHERE UP TO 
5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS MORNING. SEVERAL UNDERPASSES AND 
LOW WATER CROSSINGS REMAIN FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. 

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. 
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

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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, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 9:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 9 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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 17, 10:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor28 min
Oct 17, 10:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor119 min

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.