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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 2:48 PM CST for Kimble County, Menard 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2000, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kimble County, TX, Menard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 052049 FFWSJT TXC267-327-060245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 248 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 248 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY ACROSS EASTERN SCHLEICHER AND SUTTON COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH INTO MENARD AND KIMBLE COUNTIES. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1/2 TO 1 INCH HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 845 PM CST. * LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDE... ROOSEVELT...TELEGRAPH...JUNCTION...MENARD WITH THE GROUND SATURATED FROM EARLIER RAINFALL...ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS 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 3105 10009 3033 10008 j3034 9949 3105 9971
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 5, 2:28 PM CST, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 2:28 PM CST, 20 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 228 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 ADDED CCF LINE OF STRONG STORMS WITH AT LEAST ONE SEVERE CELL CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF THE UPPER TROUGH. PACIFIC FRONT/DRYLINE DEVELOPING A LITTLE FURTHER WEST FROM NEAR MIDLAND TO LUBBOCK. EXPECT STORMS TO CONTINUE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY THROUGH THE EVENING...INTO EASTERN COUNTIES LATER TONIGHT. WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING TONIGHT WITH HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT. STORMS SHOULD BE OUT OF THE AREA BY SUNRISE...WITH CLEARING SKIES AND SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES. NEXT ROUND OF RAIN AND STORMS LOOKS LIKE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS THE NEXT IN THE SERIES OF UPPER LOWS MOVES INTO THE AREA. ABI 052/069/048/065 600 SJT 052/070/047/066 600 JCT 054/070/045/066 600 .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. 08
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 2:29 PM CST, 19 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139- 140-154-155-168>170-052330- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 229 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM AND AN ASSOCIATED PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING. AS THIS SYSTEM ENCOUNTERS A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS WHICH IS IN PLACE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS ARE EXPECTED. ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND LOW TO MID LEVEL WIND SHEAR WILL EXIST SO THAT A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ALL BEING POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...GIVEN THE DEGREE OF SOIL SATURATION...THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL ALSO EXIST AREA WIDE. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY SHOULD COME TO AN END FROM WEST TO EAST AROUND MIDNIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.. 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. 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 9:55 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 46 min |
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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.