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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS San Angelo, TX
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.
- 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 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.
14What 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. 15
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, 10:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 119 min |
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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.