Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2002, 8:44 AM CDT for Brown 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2002, 8:44 AM CDT (13:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, TX
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 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 031344 FFWSJT TXC049-031730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 843 AM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 841 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF WESTERN BROWN COUNTY...FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF BROOKESMITH TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CROSS CUT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... LAKE BROWNWOOD AT 920 AM BROWNWOOD AT 940 AM * RAINFALL TOTALING 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER FAR EASTERN COLEMAN AND WESTERN BROWN COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED THROUGH 1230 PM CDT. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3150 9915 3167 9879 3207 9893 3206 9918
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 Jul 3, 2:51 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:51 AM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 251 AM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 THIS IS OUR RAIN DAY...RAIN CHANCES FOR WC TX DONT GET ANY BETTER IN JULY. TROPICAL AIRMASS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE CLOSER TO OUR FORECAST AREA OVERNIGHT...WITH RAIN PERSISTING OVER THE EASTERN THIRD OF OUR COUNTIES. AS THE SYSTEM SLOWLY MOVES WEST...RAIN WILL PROGRESS WEST AS WELL. RUC HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB OF HANDLING EARLY MORNING RAINS...SO WILL PLACE HIGH CONFIDENCE IN RAIN AND GO ABOVE GUIDANCE. GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK GOOD WITH CLOUDS AND RAIN. WILL GO WITH 50-80 POPS OVER ENTIRE AREA...WITH THE LOWEST CHANCES WEST. RAIN CHANCES PERSIST TONIGHT...WITH ABOVE AVERAGE POPS FOR THE 4TH...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES WEST...WILL ALSO INCLUDE SMALL POPS FOR FIREWORKS PERIOD FOR THE WEST HALF OF THE CWA. ALAS IT IS JULY AND AS THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE PLAINS...DRIER WARMER WEATHER TAKES HOLD FOR THE WEEKEND AND OUT PERIODS. WILL DISCOUNT GULF MOISTURE WORKING INTO WCENTRL TX LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...SO EXTENDED WORDING WILL STAY DRY WITH SEASONAL TEMPS. WILL RE-ISSUE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...WILL TAKE OUT SUTTON...SINCE VERY LITTLE RAIN HAS FALLEN THAT FAR WEST SO FAR...BUT WILL ADD BROWN CALLAHAN AND COLEMAN COUNTIES. ABI 084/068/086/070 7432 SJT 084/069/086/070 7532 JCT 083/070/087/071 8321 .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MASON...MENARD... MCCULLOCH... KIMBLE...SAN SABA...BROWN...CALLAHAN...AND COLEMAN COUNTIES. 25
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-031430- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 452 AM CDT WED JUL 3 2002 ...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... A VERY MOIST...TROPICAL AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. THIS AIRMASS...COMBINED WITH A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE EXTENDING FROM THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY THROUGH EASTERN TEXAS...WILL PRODUCE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT OVER MOST OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE TROPICAL NATURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM A JUNCTION...MENARD...BRADY LINE UNTIL THIS AFTERNOON. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 11:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | San Saba | 6 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 8:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 4 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.