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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2001, 2:58 PM CDT for McCulloch 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
- Jun 1, 2001, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McCulloch County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 1334 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 011959 FFWSJT TXC307-012230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 258 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCCULLOCH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 250 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 6 MILES WEST OF MERCURY TO 14 MILES WEST OF BRADY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... BRADY...PLACID AT 305 PM CDT ROCHELLE AT 315 PM CDT VOCA AT 335 PM CDT * AT 255 PM...RAINFALL TOTALING 2 TO 3 INCHES WAS ESTIMATED BY RADAR TO HAVE FALLEN OVER NORTHWEST PORTIONS OF MCCULLOCH COUNTY. THIS HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR OVER THE REMAINDER OF MCCULLOCH COUNTY BETWEEN 3 PM AND 4 PM...AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE COUNTY. 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 3144 9957 3096 9958 3095 9913 3140 9910
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 Jun 1, 2:44 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 2:44 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 244 PM CDT FRI JUN 1 2001 ACTIVE AFTERNOON AT HAND AS THUNDERSTORMS ARE MAKING THERE WAY EASTWARD TOWARD THE HEARTLAND. MID/UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE COMBINED WITH A WEAK CAP TODAY TO PRODUCE THE ACTIVITY. SHOULD SEE...HOPEFULLY...CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BECOME MINIMAL TOMORROW THROUGH SUNDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN U.S. MOVE EASTWARD JUST ENOUGH TO WARM THE MID AND UPPER LEVEL TEMPERATURES. FOR TONIGHT HOWEVER...WILL NEED TO INCLUDE 20 POPS ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY...HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY WHERE TIMING OF THE ONGOING PRECIP WILL BE THE OBVIOUS KEY. IN ADDITION...THE MID LEVEL IMPULSE MAY STILL BE SITUATED NEAR THE HEARTLAND AND NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY UNTIL MIDNIGHT. ELSEWHERE...CONVERGENCE ZONE AND A WELL STACKED THETA-E RIDGE WILL EXIST OVER FAR WESTERN AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER...SURFACE AND DEWPOINT TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER THAN WHAT THE MODELS SUGGEST AS RAIN COOLED AIR COVERS MUCH OF THE AREA AT THE CURRENT TIME. THEREFORE...REDEVELOPMENT OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT. FOR TEMPERATURES...WILL SEE A WARMUP THOUGH SUNDAY AS THE THERMAL AXIS MOVES EASTWARD. WILL TREND TOWARD GUIDANCE WITH PERHAPS AN ELEVATED TWEEK ON MAXES BUT NOT UNTIL SUNDAY AS THE SOAKED GROUND MAY KEEP TEMPS DOWN A CAT ON SATURDAY WITHOUT A WESTERLY SURFACE FLOW. IN THE EXTENDED...A POSITIVELY TILTED TROUGH WILL BECOME POSITIONED OVER EAST TEXAS ALLOWING FOR A DUE NORTHERLY FLOW ALOFT. THIS WILL ACTUALLY PUSH A SIGNIFICANT COOL FRONT DOWN ON TUESDAY. MOISTURE RETURN LOOKS LIKELY SO WILL KEEP THE SLIGHT RISK OF THUNDERSTORMS GOING FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY. COOLER AIR TO FOLLOW WITH MINS POTENTIALLY FALLING INTO THE UPPER 50S DURING THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK FOR LOWS. NOT TOO SHABBY FOR EARLY JUNE. WILL BE ISSUING A ZONE UPDATE SHORTLY AS A SVR TSTM WATCH IS ON THE WAY. ABI 071/093/072/097 1000 SJT 071/095/072/098 1000 JCT 070/095/071/096 1000 .SJT...NONE... 21
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 69 min |
| Jun 1, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, McCulloch | 54 min |
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.