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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 11, 2003Coke County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 2003, 6:56 PM CDT for Coke 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 11, 2003, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Coke 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1010 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KSJT 112356
FFWSJT
TXC081-120245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
656 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 655 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LARGE CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE
  WESTERN HALF OF COKE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
  THE STORMS WILL SLOWLY OVERSPREAD COKE COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM.

* RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN WESTERN COKE 
  COUNTY...AND AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES WILL OCCUR OVER MUCH 
  OF COKE COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM. 

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 10080 3173 10082 3172 10026 3206 10026

$$

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1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KSJT 120021
FFSSJT
TXC081-120245-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
716 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COKE COUNTY UNTIL 945 
PM CDT...

AT 715 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE CLUSTER OF 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWESTERN 
COKE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF COKE COUNTY 
SINCE 600 PM. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED THROUGH 845 PM.

SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED 8 TO 10 INCHES OF WATER OVER A ROAD 
IN FAR SOUTHWESTERN COKE COUNTY...SEVEN MILES EAST OF HIGHWAY 87 ON 
FM ROAD 2034. FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS COKE COUNTY AS 
THE VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES.

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.

$$

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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 11, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
300 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

CHANCES ARE LOOKING BETTER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PRECIP AS CONVECTIVE
INHIBITION DECREASES AND DRY LINE MIXES EAST AND INTERACTS WITH OLD
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA. LATEST SURFACE OBS HAS DRY
LINE EXTENDING FROM EAST OF FORT STOCKTON TO THE CENTRAL PANHANDLE
WITH STORMS ALREADY KICKING UP WEST OF CROCKETT COUNTY...ALTHOUGH
INTENSITY OF STORMS HAVE DECREASED THE LAST SEVERAL SCANS. ACTIVITY
THAT DOES DEVELOP LATER SHOULD REMAIN ISOLATED BUT COULD EASILY
REACH SEVERE CRITERIA WITH LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. CHANCE OF
STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING AS DRY LINE CONTINUES TO EDGE
EAST POSSIBLY AS FAR AS THE WESTERN CWA. THIS EVENING SHOULD ALSO
SEE AN INCREASE IN LLJ ACTIVITY WITH A SHORTWAVE TROF ADVERTISED BY
THE LATEST MESO ETA CROSSING THE CWA EMBEDDED IN WEST WINDS ALOFT.

PERIODIC IMPULSES EMBEDDED IN THE WEST FLOW ALOFT AND AN ACTIVE
DRYLINE WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF PRECIP IN THE FORECAST INTO THE
WEEKEND. AS THE WEAK UPPER RIDGE OVER TEXAS CONTINUES TO BREAK
DOWN... AVN BRINGS A COLD FRONT THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON
SUNDAY WITH GOOD CHANCE OF ACCOMPANYING PRECIP AND A RETURN TO A
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS DEVELOPS FROM EASTERN
TEXAS TO THE GREAT LAKES INTO THE BEGINNING OF NEXT WEEK THE AREA
WILL CONTINUE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. GIVEN A
SERIES OF SHORTWAVE TROUGH PASSAGES EMBEDDED THIS NORTHWEST FLOW
THROUGH THE EXTENDED....CHANCE OF PRECIP WILL CONTINUE. MRF BEGINS
TO BUILD AN UPPER RIDGE OVER SOUTHERN ROCKIES BY THE END OF NEXT
WEEK WHICH SHOULD SHUNT PRECIP TO OUR EAST.

ABI 071/094/071/095 3232
SJT 071/095/072/095 3222
JCT 072/094/074/094 3222

.SJT...NONE.

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140-
154-155-168>170-122030-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
345 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM SONORA...TO
SAN ANGELO AND HASKELL. TO THE WEST OF THIS LINE...THERE IS A SLIGHT
RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
HAS BECOME EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. THE DRYLINE WILL PROVIDE
THE FOCUS...AS IT PUSHES INTO THE OZONA...STERLING CITY AND
SWEETWATER LINE AREAS. A FAST MOVING DISTURBANCE IN ZONAL FLOW
ALOFT WILL PROVIDE UPPER SUPPORT.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS...BUT
ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO A
CONCERN AS HOURLY RAINFALL RATES EXCEED ONE INCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...AS THE
ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. BY THE WEEKEND...
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT COULD BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS. NEEDLESS TO
SAY...SEVERE AND FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL CONTINUES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 6:03 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
0603 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0558 PM    STERLING CITY             TX   1.75 IN HAIL
06/11/03   STERLING                       REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SKYWARN SPOTTERS.

GUERRERO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell52 min
Jun 10, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell, Jones58 min
Jun 10, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton61 min
Jun 10, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTShackelford56 min
Jun 11, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling66 min
Jun 11, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell27 min
Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell32 min
Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSutton60 min
Jun 11, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher64 min
Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling33 min
Jun 11, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell60 min
Jun 11, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke88 min
Jun 11, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell49 min
Jun 11, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor56 min
Jun 11, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green53 min
Jun 11, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSchleicher57 min
Jun 11, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton57 min
Jun 11, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman32 min
Jun 11, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan61 min

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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.