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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS San Angelo, TX

July 6, 2002Haskell County, Jones County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2002, 4:00 AM CDT for Haskell County, Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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, 4:00 AM CDT (09:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KSJT 060900
FFWSJT
TXC207-253-061400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
400 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  JONES COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 353 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAWLEY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  ANSON.  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO 8 MILES EAST OF STAMFORD MOVING NORTH 
  AROUND 5 MPH. 

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
   HASKELL AT 450 AM CDT
   AVOCA AT 540 AM CDT
   WEINERT AT 650 AM CDT
   NUGENT AT 750 AM CDT

* RAINFALL TOTALING 1 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL 
  RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 3 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 9 AM CDT. SOME LOCAL 
  AREAS COULD SEE UP TO 5 INCHES...OR MORE.

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 3340 9952 3338 9980 3253 10012 3255 9965
          3299 9966 3298 9948

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KSJT 061030
FFSSJT
TXC207-253-441-061400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
530 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR JONES...TAYLOR...AND 
HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT...

AT 530 AM...STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 
EXTENDED FROM STAMFORD AND ANSON...SOUTHWARD TO MERKEL...DYESSS 
AFB...VIEW...TUSCOLA AND BUFFALO GAP. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE 2 TO 
4 INCHES OF RAINFALL PER HOUR THROUGH 7 AM.

RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM ANSON TO 
HAWLEY...TO ABILENE...TUSCOLA AND LAWN. THIS WILL PRODUCE FLASH 
FLOODING ACROSS JONES AND TAYLOR COUNTY. 4.03 INCHES FELL AT THE 
ABILENE REGIONAL AIRPORT IN 2 HOURS...WITH OVER 5.2 INCHES AT A FIRE 
STATION IN EAST ABILENE.

RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER ABILENE 
THROUGH 7 AM. WITH 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN ALREADY FALLEN IN 
ABILENE...FLOODING WILL CONTINUE IN THE CITY. THERE IS LIKELY MANY 
LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND LOW LYING AREAS FILLED WITH WATER ALREADY. 
PEOPLE LIVING ALONG CEDAR CREEK AND CAT CLAW CREEK MAY SEE FLOODING 
PROBLEMS.

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 061223
FFSSJT
TXC059-151-207-253-417-441-061400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
720 AM CDT SAT JUL 6 2002

...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR JONES...TAYLOR... 
SHACKELFORD...AND HASKELL COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM CDT...AND FOR FISHER 
AND CALLAHAN COUNTIES UNTIL 1215 PM...

AT 715 AM...HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM ROTAN TO MERKEL TO BUFFALO 
GAP...AND FROM TUSCOLA TO CROSS PLAINS. THIS AREA WILL SEE 2 TO 4 
INCHES OF RAINFALL THROUGH 9 AM.

RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 3 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER PARTS OF 
THE BIG COUNTRY THIS MORNING. OVER FIVE INCHES HAS FALLEN IN ABILENE.

NUMEROUS ROAD CLOSINGS HAVE OCCURRED IN ABILENE. AT 7 AM THE 
UNDERPASS AT FIRST AND SOUTH STREETS WAS FLOODED. FLOODING WAS ALSO 
BEING REPORTED ALONG CAT CLAW CREEK....CEDAR CREEK...AND BUTTON 
WILLOW CREEK ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF ABILENE. 

FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS HAS OCCURRED OVER MUCH OF THE BIG 
COUNTRY THIS MORNING. WATER OF ONLY 2 FEET DEPTH CAN CARRY AWAY 
VEHICLES.

The office that day

Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 12:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Brown	6 hr
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, 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

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.