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Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 3, 2000, 12:26 PM CST for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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, 12:26 PM CST (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Brown County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 031826 FFWSJT TXC049-032230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1226 PM CST FRI NOV 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 430 PM CST * AT 1225 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * RAINFALL TOTALING 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 430 PM CST. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED FROM EARLIER RAINFALL...ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS...CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS ACROSS BROWN COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD AND THE LAKE BROWNWOOD AREA. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3206 9916 3150 9915 3173 9876 3204 9895
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, 9 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:29 AM CST, 9 hours 57 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, 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, 6:25 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, 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.