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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 24, 2000, 2:34 AM 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2000, 2:34 AM CDT (07:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 240736 FFWSJT TXC441-241030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 234 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 530 AM CDT * AT 233 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ABILENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO 1 INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 530 AM CDT DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS DSAFELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. LAT...LON 3244 9990 3232 9974 3241 9966 3249 9977
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 24, 2:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 234 AM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 WEAKENING TREND OBSERVED WITH LARGE AREA OF RAIN FROM ABILENE...TO SAN ANGELO AND MENARD. HOWEVER...REDEVELOPMENT NOTED OVER CROCKETT COUNTY WHERE FAVORABLE 1000-500 DIFFLUENT THICKNESS PATTERN EXISTS. PER WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...UPPER LEVEL LOW SITUATED OVER CENTRAL ARIZONA WITH DRY SLOT POKING INTO FAR WEST TEXAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS THE AREA HAVE BEEN IMPRESSIVE WITH WIDESPREAD 1 TO 2 INCH AMOUNTS. ISOLATED 6 INCH TOTALS WERE NOTED ACROSS CROCKETT...IRION AND BROWN COUNTIES...PER DOPPLER ESTIMATES. NCEP MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT EJECTING THE CLOSED LOW NORTHEASTWARD AS AN OPEN WAVE. ASSOCIATED 700-300 MB Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE FIELDS PROGD TO SKIRT WEST CENTRAL TEXAS LATER TODAY AND ESPECIALLY TONIGHT. DIVERGENCE IN RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF 250 MB JET TO ENHANCE LARGE SCALE VERTICAL VELOCITIES. IN ADDITION...DIFFLUENT 1000-500 THICKNESS PROG OVER AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FINALLY...PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES WILL REMAIN UNSEASONABLY HIGH...IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES. WITH SOME MANY POSITIVE INDICATORS AND IN LIGHT OF RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...WE/LL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. WEAK COLD FRONT TO BRING COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. ABI 071/065/073/061 7751 SJT 072/064/075/060 7751 JCT 073/063/074/059 7751 .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. 17
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 23, 11:34 PM CDT, 3 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1134 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM TELEGRAPH TX FLOODING
10/23/00 KIMBLE HIGHWAY 377 FLOODED NEAR
THE SOUTH LLANO RIVER. SOME
EVACUATIONS WERE REPORTED.
0450 PM 20 S SONORA TX FLOODING
10/23/00 SUTTON SEVERAL VEHICLES
REPORTED TRAPPED BETWEEN
DRAWS ON HIGHWAY 189
0450 PM 15 S OZONA TX FLOODING
10/23/00 CROCKETT HIGHWAY 163 CLOSED TO DUE
TO FLOODING
0640 PM 5 SW MASON TX FLOODING
10/23/00 MASON THREE FEET OF WATER OVER
RANCH ROAD 1871
0645 PM BRADY TX FLOODING
10/23/00 MCCULLOCH FIVE FEET OF WATER COVERING
RANCH ROAD 1311
0833 PM RICHLAND SPRINGS TX FLOODING
10/23/00 SAN SABA HOUSE FLOODED
1005 PM 15 S BROWNWOOD TX FLOODING
10/23/00 BROWN RANCH ROAD 45 CLOSED AT
THE BROWN/MILLS COUNTY LINE
DUE TO FLOODING
18The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 42 min |
| Oct 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coke | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 12:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 12:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 66 min |
| Oct 24, 3:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
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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.