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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2000, 7:21 PM CST for Mason 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 5, 2000, 7:21 PM CST (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 10:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mason County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 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 060122 FFWSJT TXC319-060415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 721 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MASON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1015 PM CST * AT 712 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN MASON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MASON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN ACROSS MASON COUNTY SINCE 5 PM...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 1015 PM CST. 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 3076 9927 3063 9912 3070 9900 3089 9908
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, 6:14 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 6:14 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 614 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 MAIN LINE OF STORMS PASSING OUT OF THE EASTERN TIP OF SAN SABA COUNTY AT THIS POINT...TAKING THE THREAT OF TORNADOES WITH IT. PER WWAMKC... WILL GO AHEAD AND DROP THE TORNADO WATCH FOR THE SOUTHEAST ZONES. DRYLINE STILL OUT TO THE WEST...DRAPED FROM NEAR CHILDRESS TO WEST OF MIDLAND. ALTHOUGH UPPER DYNAMICS ARE PUSHING EAST...STILL SOME CHANCE OF RAIN AS A COLD FRONT OVERTAKES THE DRYLINE AND PUSHES THROUGH THE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH SOME CHANCE OF RAIN FOR THE EVENING. GIVEN THAT THE GROUND IS COMPLETELY SATURATED...WILL ALSO HOLD ONTO THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A FEW MORE HOURS. .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 5, 2:29 PM CST, 4 hours 52 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, 7:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 3 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.