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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 4, 2000, 11:00 AM CST for Kimble County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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 4, 2000, 11:00 AM CST (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 4, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kimble County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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 041703 FFWSJT TXC267-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1100 AM CST SAT NOV 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 1053 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... JUNCTION AT 1115 AM CST SEGOVIA AT 1120 AM CST * HEAVY RAINFALL FROM FRIDAY HAS CAUSED THE GROUND TO BE COMPLETELY SATURATED ACROSS KIMBLE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 1/2 INCH CAN BE EXPECTED...WHICH WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND CAUSE FLOODING OF ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS. 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 3066 10009 3032 10005 3038 9945 3070 9965
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 4, 2:36 AM CST, 8 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 2:36 AM CST, 8 hours 24 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 236 AM CST SAT NOV 4 2000 A MUCH NEEDED BREAK IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. MOST OF THE PRECIP HAS MOVED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA...WITH ONLY RESIDUAL SHOWERS OVER THE HEARTLAND. TAKING A PEAK AT USGS RIVER GAUGES...THE PROBLEMATIC SITES ALONG THE SAN SABA AND LLANO RIVERS HAVE CRESTED OR WILL CREST SHORTLY. THE BAD NEWS...THE RAIN MIGHT NOT BE FINISHED. WATER VAPOR LOOP STILL SHOWS THE DEEP TROPICAL PLUME CROSSING THE AREA. SHORT WAVE DEPICTED ON THE LOOP SHOULD APPROACH THE AREA BY SUNRISE...SETTING OFF ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIP. AT THIS POINT...IT WOULD NOT TAKE MUCH TO INITIATE MORE FLOODING...SO WILL KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A TEMPORARY DRYING LATER THIS EVENING INTO SUNDAY. BUT THE NEXT BIG WEATHER MAKER CURRENTLY SPINNING OVER BAJA CALIFORNIA WILL EJECT NORTHEAST BRINGING MORE PRECIP. AVN IS A TOUCH FASTER THAN ETA...BUT BOTH INDICATE THERE COULD BE SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER THREAT LATER SUNDAY EVENING INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. AGREE WITH KLBB IN CRITICAL CRITERIA CONCERNING THE STRENGTH AND TIMING OF THE POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER SUNDAY AND MONDAY ARE STILL UNCERTAIN...BUT THERE IS ENOUGH STARING ME IN THE FACE TO BUMP UP POPS FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FROM CURRENT PACKAGE...AND SPC AGREES BY PUTTING MOST OF THE AREA IN THE SLIGHT RISK FOR DAY TWO. A DECENT PACFIC FRONT WILL CROSS THE AREA MONDAY...CLEARING THINGS OUT. THAT IS UNTIL LATER IN THE WEEK AS ANOTHER UPPER LOW GETS ITS ACT TOGETHER IN THE ROCKIES. THE SPECIFICS ON THE LATTER CAN BE FINE TUNED WITH FUTURE MODEL RUNS. WILL CLEAR OUT THE AREA TUESDAY IN THE EXTENDED...BUT WILL KEEP THE MENTION OF POPS FOR WEDNESDAY. PRELIMS ABI 059/055/066/055 8446 SJT 063/058/068/052 +546 JCT 064/059/071/061 +656 .SJT...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. 20
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 5:33 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-041600- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 533 AM CST SAT NOV 4 2000 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED... 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...WITH SATURATED SOILS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. 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
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.