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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 2003, 8:28 PM CDT for Haskell 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 25, 2003, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haskell 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 2313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KSJT 260128 FFWSJT TXC207-260430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 828 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASKELL TO HASKELL TO WEINERT. THE RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * RAINFALL TOTALING 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN FROM HASKELL TO WEINERT...WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED THROUGH 1130 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 3298 9996 3298 9948 3339 9949 3339 9997 $$ 04
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KSJT 260252 FFSSJT TXC207-260430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 944 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HASKELL COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... AT 941 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER HASKELL COUNTY...MAINLY FROM HASKELL NORTH TO WEINERT. THE HASKELL SHERIFF OFFICE HAS REPORTED SEVERAL ROAD CLOSINGS AROUND HASKELL...WITH WATER OVER THE ROADWAY. UP TO 1/2 INCH OF RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR LAKE STAMFORD THROUGH 11 PM. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REST OF HASKELL COUNTY WILL PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1/10 TO 1/4 INCH. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ 04
000 WGUS74 KSJT 260332 FFSSJT TXC207-260430- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1030 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HASKELL COUNTY UNTIL 1130 PM CDT... AT 1030 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER HASKELL COUNTY SINCE 8 PM. RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 3/4 INCHES ARE EXPECTED BY 1130 PM CDT...MAINLY FROM SOUTH OF HASKELL THEN EASTWARD TO LAKE STAMFORD. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. $$ 04
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 25, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 245 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003 .CURRENT...ACCORDING TO THE AREA RADARS...COLD FRONT IS LOCATED FROM NEAR LITTLEFIELD TO JUST NORTH OF CHILDRESS AT 230 PM. FRONT HAS SHOWN SIGNS OF SLOWING THIS AFTERNOON AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO SO THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. RADAR IS ALSO SHOWING SOME SHOWER ACTIVITY WITHIN THE TROPICAL MOISTURE FEED THAT IS LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA...HOWEVER IS FLIRTING WITH THE NORTHWEST ZONES AT THIS TIME. AREA REMAINS IN THE TROPICAL SOUP AS DEWPOINTS AREA WIDE IN THE LOWER 70S. .TONIGHT...WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SHOWERS AND MAYBE A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO DEVELOP OUT TO THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ONE OR TWO OF THESE COULD MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO BEGIN TO DEVELOP ALONG THE COLD FRONT AND BY MID EVENING EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE GOING GOOD FROM THE SOUTH PLAINS INTO OKLAHOMA. AS COLD POOL DEVELOPS...THIS SHOULD GIVE FRONT A SHOVE TO THE SOUTH AND MAKE IT INTO THE BIG COUNTRY COUNTIES BY SUNRISE AND THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING TO THE SOUTH WITH IT. GIVEN THE DEEP TROPICAL AIRMASS LOCATED OVER THE AREA...STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...AND ALTHOUGH SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...DURATION OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD LIMIT AMOUNT OF FLOODING. AND WILL NOT ISSUE A WATCH AT THIS TIME. .TOMORROW...FRONT TO MOVE TO THE NEAR SAN ANGELO BY NOON AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE IN DYING MODE BY THEN...HOWEVER EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES TOMORROW AFTERNOON BEFORE FRONT EXITS THE FORECAST AREA. COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TOMORROW. TEMPS AND POPS WILL BE NEAR MAV GUIDANCE. .TOMORROW NIGHT...WILL ADD POPS TO THE SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES DURING THE EVENING HOURS...DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY IN FRONTAL POSITION AND TO ACCOUNT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME POST FRONTAL ACTIVITY. .FRIDAY-WEDNESDAY...WILL BE INFLUENCED BY WEAK NORTHWEST FLOW FOR FRIDAY INTO MONDAY. DO HAVE A 10 PERCENT POPS IN THE GRIDS ACROSS THE NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE THREAT OF SOMETHING DEVELOPING IN THE PANHANDLE AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST INTO THESE AREAS. BEYOND MONDAY...SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BEGINS TO TAKE HOLD AND PUTS THE BRAKES ON ANY CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION FOR THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA. WILL ALSO SEE A WARMING TREND THROUGH THE ENTIRE PERIOD WITH TEMPERATURES APPROACHING THE UPPER 90S BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. IF THE TREND CONTINUES WILL LIKELY BE AROUND 100 BY THE FOURTH. .SJT...NONE. ABI 072/083/063/086/063 55200 SJT 073/084/065/086/062 4520- JCT 074/086/066/088/063 043-0 27/BRAZZELL
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-262100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 405 PM CDT WED JUN 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY MAY SEE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS FARTHER NORTH...CLOSER TO THE RED RIVER...SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE INTO OUR NORTHERN OUTLOOK AREA. IF ANY STORMS DO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO OUR NORTHERN AREA...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHERN BIG COUNTRY. 23/HUBER
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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.