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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 7, 2003Sterling County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2003, 8:03 PM CDT for Sterling 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 7, 2003, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sterling 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 585 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KSJT 080105
FFWSJT
TXC431-080400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
803 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  STERLING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT

* AT 803 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
   STERLING CITY AT 845 PM CDT

* RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES IS EXPECTED IN THE WARNED 
  AREA THROUGH 1100 PM CDT

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 3206 10081 3205 10083 3178 10082 3163 10127
          3184 10126 3208 10086 3208 10081

$$
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1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KSJT 080320
FFSSJT
TXC431-080400-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1014 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR STERLING COUNTY UNTIL 
1100 PM CDT...

AT 1014 PM CDT...FLOOD WATERS HAVE COVERED HIGHWAY 87...3 MILES 
SOUTH OF STERLING CITY. RADAR ESTIMATES AND SPOTTERS REPORT UP TO 3 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE COUNTY. LITTLE ADDITIONAL 
RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH 11 PM...HOWEVER MORE STORMS ARE 
EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS STERLING COUNTY AFTER MIDNIGHT. MOTORISTS 
SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING ACROSS STERLING COUNTY 
TONIGHT. 

$$
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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 7, 1:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 1:50 PM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
150 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003

.CURRENT...COLD FRONT APPROACHING LUBBOCK EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
FIREWORKS SHOULD GET STARTED BEFORE 00Z IN THIS REGION...AS TCU
ALREADY EVIDENT ON VISIBLE IMAGERY. CLOSER TO HOME...MOISTURE
ADVECTION UNDERWAY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...AS DEWPOINTS HAVE
RISEN INTO THE MID 60S FROM JUNCTION AND SAN ANGELO...TO SWEETWATER.

.TONIGHT...MCS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN VICINITY OF LUBBOCK LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...THEN PROPAGATE/BUILD TOWARD SAN ANGELO AND SAN SABA
TONIGHT. STORMS MAY NOT REACH SAN ANGELO UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. WITH
PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES APPROACHING 1.75 INCHES...RAINFALL AMOUNTS
BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE BIG
COUNTRY AND NORTHERN HEARTLAND...ALONG THE ANTICIPATED TRACK OF THE
MCS. CANNOT RULE OUT HEAVY RAIN FURTHER SOUTH ACROSS THE CONCHO
VALLEY...AS CORFIDI VECTORS SUGGEST DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTHWEST
FLANK. IN ADDITION...SHOWALTER VALUES ARE GREATEST ACROSS THE CONCHO
VALLEY AND HEARTLAND...MINUS 6.

.SUNDAY...COLD FRONT TO STALL NEAR I-10...PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR MORE
DEVELOPMENT. ONLY CONCERN IS ATMOSPHERE MAY NOT RELOAD. BUT BASED ON
ETA CAPES AND CIN VALUES...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD ERUPT WITH
ANY KIND OF HEATING. STORMS TO LINGER THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS
UNTIL SURFACE INSOLATION CEASES.

.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...SOUTHWEST FLOW GETS ESTABLISHED ALOFT.
SERIES OF SHORTWAVES...SOME DECENT IN STRENGTH...TO INTERACT WITH
DRYLINE. WESTERN COUNTIES FAVORED. NO SHORTAGE OF MOISTURE WITH
DEWPOINTS REMAINING IN THE MID 60S AREAWIDE.

.EXTENDED WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY...GFS STILL BACKING OFF OF PREVIOUSLY
ADVERTISED RIDGING MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. IN FACT THIS ARE
TRANSITIONING INTO MORE OF A ZONAL TO SOUTHWEST FLOW BY THE END OF
THE PERIOD AS TROUGH DEVELOPS IN THE WESTERN US. THIS IS STILL
FAVORABLE FOR SOME SLIGHT CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE
EXTENDED. NO ONE DAY LOOKS BETTER THAN THE OTHER AT THIS POINT AND
WITH CHANCES SO LOW...PLAN TO LEAVE OUT OF THE FORECAST AT THIS
POINT WITH BIGGER FISH TO FRY TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL
MODERATE THROUGH THE PERIOD...HOWEVER IT SHOULD NOT BE THAT BAD AS
MOST SUNS ENERGY WILL STILL BE GOING TO DRY OUT THE ATMOSPHERE.
HOWEVER IT COULD BE QUITE HUMID.

PRELIMS...

ABI 063/078/063/088 9421
SJT 066/081/065/089 6422
JCT 071/082/066/090 3311

12PLANET/ISC COORDINATION WITH FWD/EWX. THANKS SISTER WFOS.

.SJT...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR THE BIG COUNTRY...CONCHO VALLEY
AND HEARTLAND.

27/BRAZZELL/17
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 1:29 PM CDT, 6 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-090000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
129 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE BIG
COUNTRY...CONCHO VALLEY...AND HEARTLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BROWNWOOD TO SAN ANGELO
TO MERTZON. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
TEXAS TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE SOUTH
OF THE APPROACHING FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE BIG COUNTRY BY LATE AFTERNOON AND
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS DURING THE EVENING. THE STORMS COULD ORGANIZE
INTO A COMPLEX AND MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE HEARTLAND TONIGHT.
ADDITIONAL STORMS SHOULD DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AS
IT MOVES DOWN INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY AND HEARTLAND TONIGHT.

THE UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND VERTICAL SHEAR PROFILES WILL SUPPORT THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE
MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE LIKELY
WITH THE STORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES COULD OCCUR
WITH THE STRONGER STORMS...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO THREE INCHES
POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED FROM RECENT HEAVY RAINS...
SOME LOCATIONS MAY EXPERIENCE WATER RUNOFF PROBLEMS AND A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED NORTH OF A LINE FROM MERTZON TO SAN
ANGELO AND SAN SABA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY...AS
MOISTURE REMAINS WITH THE PRESENCE OF WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARIES...
AND WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES TRAVERSE THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT.

27/BRAZZELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green63 min
Jun 7, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Nolan57 min
Jun 7, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling65 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green56 min
Jun 7, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan, Taylor64 min
Jun 7, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke74 min
Jun 7, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke3 hr
Jun 7, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling14 min
Jun 7, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels88 min
Jun 7, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke63 min
Jun 7, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green44 min
Jun 7, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan39 min
Jun 7, 10:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTNolan3 hr
Jun 7, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor67 min
Jun 7, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho61 min
Jun 7, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones92 min
Jun 7, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan79 min
Jun 7, 11:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTJones3 hr
Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell57 min
Jun 8, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford59 min
Jun 8, 8:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown3 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.