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Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 25, 2002, 11:59 AM CDT for Menard 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 as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2002, 11:59 AM CDT (16:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 25, 2002, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Menard 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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 251659 FFWSJT TXC327-252000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1158 AM CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 1156 AM CDT...FLOODING CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF MENARD COUNTY. THIS FLOODING WAS A RESULT OF HEAVY RAIN THAT OCCURRED EARLIER TODAY. SEVERAL ROADS...INCLUDING HIGHWAY 864 WERE CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER THE ROADWAY. * AT 1156 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS...PRODUCING LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN OVER MENARD 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 3075 10009 3076 9956 3105 9967 3107 10007
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 Oct 25, 9:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 9:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 930 AM CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 KSJT RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU...IN THE HEARTLAND COUNTIES. NUMEROUS ROADS ACROSS THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU HAVE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. FLASH FLOOD WATCH WAS JUST ISSUED DUE TO CONTINUED FLOOD THREAT THIS AFTERNOON...ACROSS THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF WC TX. NEXT IMMEDIATE AREA OF CONCERN IN THE HEARTLAND. WITH SATURATED SOILS...IT WILL NOT TAKE MUCH ADDITIONAL RAIN OVER THE WATCH AREA. ZONE FORECAST SENT EARLIER TO UPDATE FIRST PERIOD POPS TO LIKELY/ CATEGORICAL ACROSS THE SOUTH. WILL SEND ANOTHER ZFP UPDATE WITH WATCH HEADLINES. 14
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 25, 5:30 AM CDT, 6 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-251615- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 530 AM CDT FRI OCT 25 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ROBERT LEE...TO EDEN AND JUNCTION...CAN EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAINLY THIS MORNING. MOST OF THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...OF WHICH ONE OR TWO STORMS MAY CONTAIN HAIL TO NEAR DIME SIZE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WITH PERIODS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL THROUGH TUESDAY. 24
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 9:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 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.