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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 4:33 AM CST for Sutton 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
- Nov 3, 2000, 4:33 AM CST (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2000, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sutton County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1062 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 031035 FFWSJT TXC435-031330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 433 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 AM CST * AT 433 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN SUTTON COUNTY SOUTH OF SONORA... DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA... WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 730 AM CST 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 3033 10089 3031 10048 3067 10014 3066 10083
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 Nov 3, 2:29 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:29 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 229 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 PREPARING FOR MORE RAIN. PEEKING AT WATER VAPOR LOOP...TRACKING AN EXTREMELY LONG PLUME OF TROPICAL MOISTURE...STRECTHING WEST TO THE PACIFIC ITCZ SOUTHEAST OF HAWAII. THIS MOISTURE IS SURGING FROM THE SOUTHWEST AROUND THE BASE OF A LARGE POSITIVELY TILTED TROF FROM NORTHERN MINNESOTA TO BAJA CALIFORNIA. THIS JUICY AIR IS RIDING OVER A RESIDUAL...SOMEWHAT HARD TO IDENTIFY...SURFACE FRONT JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. KSJT AND KDYS 88DS ARE LIT UP LIKE CHRISTMAS TREES WITH ALL OF THE PRECIP GOING ON. WITH AN UPPER RIDGE LOCKED IN OVER THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO...THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED TROF SHOULD NOT SLIDE EAST...AND MODELS GIVE ALL INDICATION OF A SOUTHWEST DRIFT AS IT INTENSIFIES...HELPED ALONG BY A 100 KNOT SPEED MAX ROTATING AROUND ITS BASE. WITH NO MOVEMENT IN THE ORIENTATION OF THE TROPICAL PLUME...NO SUPPORT TO PUSH THE SURFACE FRONT OUT OF THE AREA...AND AN EXPECTED WARM AND JUICY AIRMASS IN PLACE...SEE MORE RAIN IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. TIMING OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY IS THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IN PINPOINTING PRECIP...BUT A SNEEZE IS ALL THE LIFT NEEDED TO TAP INTO THIS MOIST AIRMASS. BASICALLY...WILL EXTEND AND EXPAND THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING... NOW INCLUDING ALL OF THE FORECAST AREA. WITH ALL OF THE CLOUD COVER AND THE PRECIP...DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGE WILL REMAIN SMALL. PRELIMS ABI 068/058/067/052 +754 SJT 069/059/067/054 +865 JCT 070/061/070/059 +865 .SJT...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. RIVER FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAN SABA...LLANO AND THE COLORADO RIVER (BALLINGER SOUTHWARD) THROUGH THIS EVENING. 20
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 5:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 2 hr |
| Nov 3, 6:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 6:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 8:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 4 hr |
| Nov 3, 8:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 4 hr |
| Nov 3, 8:42 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 9:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason, Menard | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 9:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 4 hr |
| Nov 3, 10:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 11:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 12:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 12:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 4 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 2:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 3:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 6 hr |
| Nov 3, 4:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.