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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2002, 12:20 AM CDT for Brown 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2002, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2002, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 060520 FFWSJT TXC049-061115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1220 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 615 AM CDT * AT 1214 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSS CUT...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF EARLY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ALSO INDICATED NEAR BANGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR... CROSS CUT AT 1225 AM CDT LAKE BROWNWOOD AT 1 AM CDT * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 INCH HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH 615 AM CDT. THIS RAINFALL IS FALLING ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS...AND WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND PRODUCE FLOODING. 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 3148 9915 3173 9871 3207 9892 3207 9917
4 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KSJT 060558 FFSSJT TXC049-061045- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1258 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT... AT 1255 AM CDT...RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN FROM LAKE BROWNWOOD TO CROSS CUT SINCE 1145 PM. AT 1255 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY...ALONG AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 67. 1 TO 2 INCHES CAN EXPECTED FROM MAY TO CROSS CUT BETWEEN 1 AND 2 AM. BANGS TO LAKE BROWNWOOD CAN EXPECT AROUND 1 INCH. THIS RAIN WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. IT MAY BE TOO DEEP TO CROSS SAFELY.
000 WGUS74 KSJT 060641 FFSSJT TXC049-061115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 140 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 615 AM CDT... AT 140 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER AREAS FROM LAKE BROWNWOOD TO CROSS CUT TO BURKETT SINCE MIDNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREME RAINFALL RATES OF 3 INCHES PER HOUR CONTINUE TO REGENERATE OVER THIS AREA. WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT OF THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...2 TO 4 INCHES IS LIKELY IN THIS AREA BETWEEN 140 AM AND 3 AM. THIS WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL BE FLOODED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
000 WGUS74 KSJT 060752 FFSSJT TXC049-083-061115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 250 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BROWN AND COLEMAN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 AM CDT... AT 233 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER LAKE BROWNWOOD SINCE MIDNIGHT. 4 TO 6 INCHES HAS BEEN ESTIMATED FROM ECHO TO BURKETT...AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROSS CUT. THE BROWNWOOD SHERIFF OFFICE AT 240 AM REPORTED NUMEROUS FARM TO MARKET ROADS CLOSED NEAR LAKE BROWNWOOD. A CAR RESCUE WAS BEING DONE NEAR BURKETT IN COLEMAN COUNTY ON HIGHWAY 206. THE COLEMAN SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED A WALL OF WATER GOING DOWN JIM NED CREEK. STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS FROM BURKETT TO ECHO TO 17 MILES NORTH OF COLEMAN WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE EXTREME AMOUNTS OF RAIN OF 3 TO 4 INCHES PER HOUR THROUGH 4 AM. THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
000 WGUS74 KSJT 060953 FFSSJT TXC049-059-083-061115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 450 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COLEMAN...BROWN...AND CALLAHAN COUNTIES UNTIL 615 AM CDT... AT 438 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 9 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN ECHO AND BURKETT...AND ALSO 5 MILES EAST OF SILVER VALLEY. 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN ESTIMATED FROM LAKE BROWNWOOD TO CROSS CUT. THIS WILL PRODUCE MAJOR FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN COLEMAN AND BROWN COUNTIES. A CAR HAS ALREADY BEEN WASHED AWAY NEAR BURKETT. ALL THE WATER WILL FLOW DOWN JIM NED CREEK AND PECAN BAYOU...AND FLOW INTO LAKE BROWNWOOD. PEOPLE SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR FLASH FLOODING ON THESE STREAMS. TORRENTIAL RAINS OF 3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 615 AM ACROSS SOUTHERN CALLAHAN...NORTHERN COLEMAN...AND NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES AREAS FROM OPLIN AND GOLDSBORO TO BURKETT..TO CROSS PLAINS...CROSS CUT AND MAY. FLOOD WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. 04
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 5, 9:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 9:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 950 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2002 WHATS LEFT OF THE UPPER LOW CONTINUE TO SPIN AWAY NEAR BROWNWOOD THIS EVENING...WITH SHEAR AXIS EXTENDING FARTHER SOUTH INTO THE HILL COUNTRY. SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE PRETTY MUCH ENDED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FOR THE TIME BEING. NOT SEEING SOME OF THE SAME SIGNATURES FOR HEAVY RAINFALL THAT WE HAVE SEEN THE PREVIOUS EVENINGS...BUT GIVEN THIS SYSTEMS HISTORY...NOT GOING TO RULE IT OUT. BEST CHANCES REMAIN ALONG THE UPPER LOW AND SHEAR AXIS... PRIMARILY THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST COUNTIES. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO TRIM POPS BACK JUST A HAIR AND MAKE SOME WORDING CHANGES...BUT WILL LEAVE THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH UP. 07 812 PM DISCUSSION LATEST RADAR SHOWING ALL ACTIVITY HAS ENDED IN THE CWA. RADAR LOOP ALSO SHOWING UPPER LOW SPINNING OVER THE NORTHERN HEARTLAND. IF PATTERN OF LAST SEVERAL DAYS HOLDS...SHOULD SEE SOME REDEVELOPMENT OVER THE CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT...MOST LIKELY IN PROXIMITY OF THE UPPER LOW. ACCORDINGLY... HAVE PUSHED BACK BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS UNTIL MAINLY AFTER MIDNIGHT IN ALL ZONES. .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR MASON...MENARD...KIMBLE... MCCULLOCH...SAN SABA...BROWN...COLEMAN COUNTIES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Fisher | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 6 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.