Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 15, 2001, 8:17 AM CST for Kimble 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 15, 2001, 8:17 AM CST (14:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2001, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 4 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:17 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 151426 FFWSJT TXC267-151815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 817 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR... KIMBLE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 PM CST * AT 815 AM CST...WEATHER OBSERVERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHWESTERN KIMBLE COUNTY...WITH SEVERAL AREA ROADS COVERED WITH WATER AND MANY STREAMS AT BANKFULL. * RAINFALL TOTALING 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN THROUGHOUT KIMBLE COUNTY...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 1 INCH EXPECTED THROUGH 1215 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 3065 9991 3035 10004 3036 9943 3067 9975 15
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 15, 3:11 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 3:11 AM CST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 311 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ALTHOUGH BENEFICIAL RAIN IS FALLING ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TX...ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED WHICH COULD LEAD TO RUNOFF/FLOODING PROBLEMS. CURRENT SITUATION...AREA RADARS INDICATE LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ADVANCING ACROSS OUR NORTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES. RAINFALL TOTALS ACROSS OUR CWFA SO FAR RANGE FROM 1-2 INCHES EAST...TO 2-5 INCHES OVER WESTERN THIRD. ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS/STORMS OVER SW AND WEST TX ADVANCING NNE...INTO OUR WESTERN COUNTIES. UPPER LOW OVER FAR NORTHERN MEXICO JUST SOUTHWEST OF KELP. MODEL RUNS CONSISTENT WITH TRACK OF UPPER LOW...DRIFTING IT EAST ACROSS RIO GRANDE TO JUST EAST OF KELP TODAY...THEN MEANDERING ALONG TX/NM BORDER EAST OF KELP TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. SYSTEM TO WEAKEN AND FILL AS IT LIFTS OUT SLOWLY NNE INTO NM BY SATURDAY. GOOD DYNAMICS WITH THIS SYSTEM TO CONTINUE ACROSS OUR REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE AND QG FORCING. SOUTHEAST LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FEED FROM GULF TO CONTINUE...WITH DEEP MOISTURE AXIS SITUATED ACROSS A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF OUR CWFA. EXPECT ADDITIONAL ROUNDS OF SHOWERS/STORMS TO PIVOT ACROSS OUR CWFA TODAY AND TONIGHT...AND POSSIBLY INTO FRIDAY. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO BECOME MORE SCATTERED LATER FRI INTO SATURDAY. GIVEN THE SUSTAINED FAVORABLE FACTORS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL...PLANNING TO ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL OF OUR CWFA TODAY AND TONIGHT. FOR TEMPERATURES...FAVOR A LOW DIURNAL RANGE WITH SOLID CLOUDCOVER AND EPISODES OF RAIN. TEMPS DROPPED INTO 50S AT SJT AND ABI WITH ONSET OF RAIN LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING. WILL LEAN TOWARD COOL TEMPS NEXT 2-3 DAYS. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPPER LOW TO OPEN UP AND TRACK EAST ACROSS TX AS A SHORTWAVE ON SUNDAY. COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH DIGGING NORTHERN STREAM UPPER TROUGH PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS OUR REGION SUNDAY NIGHT... WITH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING SOUTH BEHIND IT ON MONDAY. WITH THIS SCENARIO WILL RETAIN THE RAIN CHANCES SUNDAY BUT REMOVE IT MON. PRELIMINARY CCF... ABI 063/057/063/054 +754 SJT 061/056/061/055 +754 JCT 064/059/064/056 +754 .SJT...FLOOD WATCH TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. 19
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 5:41 AM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-151530- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 541 AM CST THU NOV 15 2001 ...HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT... A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM NEAR EL PASO HAS ALREADY DEPOSITED TWO TO FIVE INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER THE EDWARDS PLATEAU AND CONCHO VALLEY...AND BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES ELSEWHERE. WITH THIS POTENT STORM SYSTEM MAINTAINING IS STRENGTH AND MOVING VERY LITTLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...ANOTHER TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE BY FRIDAY MORNING. GIVEN THE SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN FLOODING. RAIN COOLED AIR AND EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER WILL INHIBIT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE SEE STATEMENTS AND OUTLOOKS FROM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICES ACROSS TEXAS...OKLAHOMA...AND NEW MEXICO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 5:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 3 hr |
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.