Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2003, 4:18 AM CDT for Schleicher County, Sutton 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
- May 27, 2003, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2003, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Schleicher 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 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 270926 FFWSJT TXC413-435-271315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 418 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCHLEICHER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS SUTTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 815 AM CDT * AT 412 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 10 MILES EAST OF ELDORADO TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SONORA...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * RADAR ESTIMATES...AS WELL AS LOCAL OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA SINCE MIDNIGHT...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 3 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 815 AM CDT. THIS WILL CAUSE SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS TO FLOOD RAPIDLY IN SOUTHERN SCHLEICHER AND NORTHERN SUTTON COUNTIES. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW SAFE PASSAGE. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. LAT...LON 3109 10087 3032 10090 3031 10014 3106 10013 $$ 27/BRAZZELL
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KSJT 271041 FFSSJT TXC413-435-271315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 533 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SUTTON AND SCHLEICHER COUNTIES UNTIL 815 AM CDT... AT 528 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER SOUTHERN SCHLEICHER AND NORTHERN SUTTON COUNTIES SINCE MIDNIGHT...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED BY 815 AM CDT. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. AT 528 AM CDT...THE SUTTON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED THAT 3 AND HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN SONORA SINCE MIDNIGHT. MANY STREETS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. ALSO MANY BRIDGES AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE FLOODED. DO NOT PUT YOUR LIFE AT RISK...IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROADWAY...TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. $$ 27/BRAZZELL
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 May 27, 3:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 313 AM CDT TUE MAY 27 2003 RAIN CHANCES COME TO AN END AS DOES THE LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND AFTER A SPRING OF ALMOST NO RAIN...WHAT BETTER WAY FOR WEST TEXAS TO CELEBRATE THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...THAN WITH RAIN. MOST AREAS GOT ABOUT AN INCH OF RAIN...SOME AREAS EVEN MORE AS AN UPPER LEVEL LOW AND WEAK COLD FRONT PROVIDED DYNAMICS FOR RAIN. GOOD RAIN AND NOT TOO DISRUPTIVE FOR MOST ACTIVITIES. THE UPPER LOW/BASE OF SHEAR AXIS IS NOW POSITIONED ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO AND IS DROPPING FURTHER SOUTH. AS IT MOVES AWAY CHANCES FOR RAIN GO WITH IT. ALTHO THERE HAS BEEN AN AREA OF PERSISTENT SHOWERS BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND OZONA OVERNIGHT. SHOWING IMPACT OF DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT AND WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT. WILL FINE TUNE FIRST PERIOD POPS AT LAST MINUTE...BUT BASED ON OVERNIGHT PRECIP TRENDS WILL HIT MORNING POPS HARDEST ACROSS SOUTHWEST AT 50 PERCENT...WILL CARRY 30 ACROSS CONCHO VALLEY AND NW HILL COUNTRY...WILL MENTION SPRINKLES ACROSS SOUTHERN BIG COUNTRY AND NO MENTION OF RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY AS UPPER LEVEL LOW CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTHEAST. REMAINING RAIN CHANCES FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT DIMINISH. RAIN CHANCES MIGHTY SLIM FOR THE BIG COUNTRY AND INCREASE TO THE 20 RANGE ALONG THE I-10 CORRIDOR TONIGHT. BY MID WEEK DRIER AIR MOVES IN...AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS IN. BACK TO SEASONAL DRY WEATHER MOST OF THE WEEK...NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN NOT TILL LATE IN THE WEEKEND AND WILL ONLY MENTION RAIN CHANCES FOR SUNDAY. CCF PRELIMS... ABI 079/059/085/062 1000 SJT 080/058/085/060 3-00 JCT 081/059/085/060 3100 .SJT...NONE. 25
Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 2:30 PM CDT, 13 hours 48 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A SHORT WAVE MOVING OUT OF NORTHERN MEXICO AND INTERACTING WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS MAY TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE BIG BEND REGION OF TEXAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DRIFT EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10. NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A STATIONARY FRONT LOCATED ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS MAY PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR SOME SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EARLY TUESDAY... HOWEVER NO SEVERE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A BUILDING HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES WILL END RAIN CHANCES FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 15
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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.