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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2003, 1:28 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 13, 2003, 1:28 PM CDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 4:15 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
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2165 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 131828 FFWSJT TXC081-132115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 128 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN COKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 125 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRONTE...OR JUST WEST OF OAK CREEK LAKE ...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * RAINFALL TOTALING 1 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE WARNED AREA...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE THROUGH 415 PM CDT. CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS NORTHERN COKE COUNTY WILL QUICKLY BECOME FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE. 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 3207 10028 3205 10064 3173 10044 3193 10026 $$ 07
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KSJT 132039 FFSSJT TXC081-132115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 340 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COKE COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM CDT... AT 327 PM CDT...THE COKE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED THAT ROSS ROAD AT BOSSIER CREEK IS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. THE SHERIFF OFFICE ALSO REPORTED THAT OTHER ROADS IN THE VICINITY OF OAK CREEK RESERVOIR AT BLACKWELL HAVE BEEN OVERTAKEN BY WATER. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH IS POSSIBLE BY 430 PM CDT. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS...STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 93 min |
| Jun 13, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 11:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 11:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 1:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 2:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coke | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coke | 3 hr |
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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.