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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 6:25 AM CST for McCulloch 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, 6:25 AM CST (12:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2000, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McCulloch County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:28 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 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 031226 FFWSJT TXC307-031515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 625 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCCULLOCH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 915 AM CST * AT 620 AM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS REPORTED FLOODING OF SEVERAL LOW WATER CROSSINGS IN MCCULLOCH COUNTY. WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT HOUR...ADDITIONAL AND SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS ACROSS MCCULLOCH COUNTY IS EXPECTED. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO G(REAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AROUND BARRICADES. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. LAT...LON 3100 9953 3097 9914 3141 9915 3143 9957
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, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:29 AM CST, 3 hours 56 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 3, 5:36 AM CST, 49 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-031600- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 536 AM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 ...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND NON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR TODAY... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE WILL OVERRIDE A COOL SHALLOW AIRMASS OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SUBTROPICAL FLOW WILL INTERACT WITH WEAK ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY TO AID THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. DUE TO LIMITED INSTABILITY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE A THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS THEREFORE BEEN ISSUED FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. 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. 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 3, 4:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sutton | 3 hr |
| Nov 3, 5:45 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 2 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 |
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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.