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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2003, 3:34 AM CDT for Brown 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
- Jun 6, 2003, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2003, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 060834 FFWSJT TXC049-061130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 334 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 325 AM CDT...THE BROWNWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUED ACROSS THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD AND MUCH OF CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA SINCE 2 AM...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 INCH LIKELY THROUGH 630 AM CDT. MANY STREETS IN BROWNWOOD WILL RAPIDLY FILL WITH SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER. 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 3172 9911 3157 9898 3169 9872 3193 9887 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KSJT 061018 FFSSJT TXC049-061130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 518 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 630 AM CDT... AT 515 AM CDT...THE BROWNWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT MAJOR STREET FLOODING CONTINUED IN THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAD PUSHED EAST OF BROWN COUNTY. HOWEVER...AN AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS BROWN COUNTY AND THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD THROUGH SUNRISE. WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL TO THE EAST...FLOOD WATERS SHOULD BEGIN TO GRADUALLY RECEDE. UNTIL THEN...MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW SAFE PASSAGE. REMEMBER...MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES. $$ 07
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 Jun 6, 2:52 AM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:52 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 252 AM CDT FRI JUN 6 2003 MCS MOVING QUICKLY SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TX...AND THE LEADING EDGE SHOULD EXIT OUR COUNTIES BY DAWN. WILL MONITOR RADAR TRENDS OF TRAILING PRECIPITATION AREA FOR INCLUSION OF MORNING POP. AFTER THIS SYSTEM EXITS...NOT EXPECTING ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION TODAY. THUS PLAN TO CANCEL THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH BEFORE NOON. COLD FRONT TO PUSH SOUTH OF OUR COUNTIES TODAY WITH WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDING IN FROM THE NORTH. ANOTHER COLD FRONT TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TX SATURDAY NIGHT. WILL ADD A LOW POP FOR LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN THE BIG COUNTRY...WHERE SOME MOISTURE POOLING COULD OCCUR WITH APPROACHING FRONT. WILL CARRY 30 OR 40 POP BIG COUNTRY SATURDAY NIGHT WITH 20 POP FARTHER SOUTH. BETTER MOISTURE AVAILABILITY PROGGED FOR BIG COUNTRY. ETA ALSO SUGGESTS MCS SATURDAY NIGHT WOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS RED RIVER VALLEY AND NORTH TX...WITH PART OF SYSTEM AFFECTING THE BIG COUNTRY. WILL CONTINUE WITH A LOW POP SUNDAY WITH WEAK OVERRUNNING AND MOISTURE LINGERING OVER THE REGION. FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK...LATEST GFS DELAYS BUILDING THE UPPER RIDGE INTO TX AND THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...AND INSTEAD BRINGS WEAK SHORTWAVES INTO THE AREA. IF NEXT 1 OR 2 MODEL RUNS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THIS TREND...MAY NEED TO ADD POP FOR THIS TIME FRAME IN LATER FORECASTS. ABI 080/057/091/065/079 40242 SJT 082/058/093/068/081 40022 JCT 084/056/092/070/083 60022 .SJT...NONE. 19
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 3:12 PM CDT, 12 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-060000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 312 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE DURING THE AFTERNOON...WILL MOVE SOUTH DURING THE EVENING. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND MOVE EAST. THESE AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MERGE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO FALL ON ALREADY SATURATED SOILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY TONIGHT. 09
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 65 min |
| Jun 6, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 6:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 2 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.