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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2002, 12:12 AM CDT for Crockett County, Sutton 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
- Oct 8, 2002, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2002, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Crockett County, TX, Sutton 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 080512
FFWSJT
TXC105-435-081100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1210 AM CDT TUE OCT 8 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CROCKETT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 1205 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY
RAINS MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH INTO THE SOUTHERN CORNER OF
CROCKETT...AND THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF SUTTON COUNTY.
* RAINFALL TOTALING 4 TO 6 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA
SINCE MONDAY MORNING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 INCHES CAN
BE EXPECTED BY 6 AM. THIS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF DRAWS AND LOW
WATER CROSSINGS.
PEOPLE ALONG THE DRY DEVILS RIVER AND JOHNSON DRAW SHOULD LOOK FOR
RAPIDLY RISING WATER. LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG RANCH ROAD 1973 AND
STATE HIGHWAY 163 IN EASTERN CROCKETT COUNTY...AND RANCH ROADS
189...864...1691...AND 1989 IN SUTTON COUNTY WILL LIKELY BECOME
FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE.
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.
LAT...LON 3032 10165 3030 10014 3070 10019 3068 10100
3106 10101 3106 10166What 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 Oct 7, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 9:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 948 PM CDT MON OCT 7 2002 CURRENT FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE TONIGHT AND WILL NEED TO MAKE ONLY A FEW TWEAKS TO THE FORECAST. RAINFALL STARTING TO INTENSIFY ACROSS PARTS OF CROCKETT COUNTY...WITH RAINFALL RATES NOW SHOWING AROUND A QUARTER TO HALF INCH PER HOUR. DESPITE A LULL OF OVER 6 HOURS IN THE HEAVY RAINFALL...MUCH OF THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU REMAIN SATURATED AND CAN NOT TAKE MUCH MORE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL. WIND PROFILE FROM THE KDFX RADAR ALREADY SHOWING SOUTHEAST FLOW OF 30 KNOTS JUST OFF THE SURFACE...OVERRUNNING THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY ALONG MY SOUTHERN BORDER. AS IF IT WAS NOT PRETTY CLEAR ALREADY...LATEST MODELS ALSO SHOWING HEAVY RAINFALL TO REDEVELOP AND CONTINUE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...MAINLY THE WESTERN HALF. NEED TO UPDATE THE FFA TO ADJUST THE EXPIRATION TIME AND TO TWEAK SOME WORDING...BUT DO NOT NEED TO MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE WATCH AREA. .SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT ALONG AND WEST OF A ROTAN...ROBERT LEE...SAN ANGELO AND SONORA LINE. 07
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 7, 2:30 PM CDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-072330- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT MON OCT 7 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM ENTERING WEST TEXAS. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL OVER AREAS SATURATED BY THIS MORNINGS RAINFALL WILL NECESSITATE THE ISSUANCE OF A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE WESTERN PORTION OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FROM 4 PM THROUGH TONIGHT. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS EARLY TUESDAY. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED CHANCE FOR NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TUESDAY AND INTO TUESDAY NIGHT...WITH LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. RAINFALL CHANCES WILL END ON WEDNESDAY WITH DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. 15
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 6:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton | 6 hr |
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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.