Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS San Angelo, TX

Issued

Nov 3, 2000, 12:08 PM CST (18:08 UTC)

Expired

Nov 3, 2000, 3:15 PM 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 San Angelo radar (KSJT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

000 
WGUS54 KSJT 031810
FFWSJT
TXC435-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1208 PM 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 315 PM CST

* AT 1206 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN SUTTON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* RAINFALL TOTALING 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED
  AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 1 INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 315
  PM CST.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS ACROSS 
SUTTON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF SONORA.  MANY ROADS CONTINUE TO 
BE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.  

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 3062 10087 3032 10085 3038 10018 3068 10029

NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Nov 3, 2:29 AM CST, 9 hours 39 minutes earlier.

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.

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