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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2003, 5:06 PM CDT for Kimble County, Mason 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
- Aug 25, 2003, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kimble County, TX, Mason 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 252208
FFWSJT
TXC267-319-260100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
506 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
KIMBLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 506 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN 16 MILES EAST OF SEGOVIA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF
JUNCTION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
LONDON AT 510 PM CDT
MASON AT 550 PM CDT
* RAINFALL TOTALING 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTHWEST MASON
COUNTY AND IN KIMBLE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF JUNCTION.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED THROUGH 800
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 3048 9994 3035 9995 3034 9939 3056 9893
3086 9893 3090 9937 3070 9948 3068 9970
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KSJT 252253 FFSSJT TXC267-319-260100- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 552 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR KIMBLE AND MASON COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 550 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHERN KIMBLE COUNTY FROM TELEGRAPH TO WEST OF HARPER. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES HAS OCCURRED ACROSS SOUTHWEST MASON COUNTY AND EASTERN KIMBLE COUNTY. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY 8 PM. FLOODING IS LIKELY ALONG THE JAMES RIVER IN SOUTHWESTERN MASON COUNTY AND THE LITTLE DEVILS RIVER IN EASTERN KIMBLE COUNTY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. $$
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 Aug 25, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 225 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003 RADAR SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REGION. MOST OF CONVECTION OVER EASTERN SECTIONS. WATER VAPOR LOOP INDICATED AN UPPER LOW TO WEST OF THE BIG BEND. THIS UPPER LOW...ALONG WITH HURRICANE IGNACIO STALLED NEAR THE TIP OF BAJA CALIFORNIA...WAS HELPING PUMP DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. A FEW OTHER UPPER DISTURBANCES WERE INDICATED IN NORTHCENTRAL TEXAS ALONG THE RED RIVER. DISTURBANCES WERE MOVING SLOWLY WEST OR NORTHWEST. PERSISTENCE TYPE FORECAST. VERY MOIST AIR MASS TO REMAIN OVER THE REGION...WITH WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCES MOVING ACROSS IT. WITH SURFACE HEATING...WILL GET ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. GFS DOES SPLIT A PIECE OF ENERGY NORTH OF HURRICANE IGNACIO... BRINGING THE ENERGY OVER THE REGION WEDNESDAY. NOT CONFIDENT IN THIS SCENARIO HOWEVER...AND ETA MODEL DOES NOT HAVE THIS SOLUTION. MAIN EFFECT FROM IGNACIO IS CONTINUED MOIST FLOW FROM THE SOUTH. GFS DOES INDICATED VERY WEAK RIDGING OVER THE REGION WILL GIVE WAY TO AN UPPER TROUGH THIS WEEKEND...AND IS IN AGREEMENT WITH ECMWF. LATE AUGUST COLD FRONT BEING SENT FORWARD IN TIME...NOW TO THE SATURDAY/SATURDAY TIME PERIOD. PRELIMS... ABI 071/093 072/091 071 4333 SJT 070/089 070/090 072 4333 JCT 070/089 070/090 071 4323 .SJT...NONE. 04
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 2:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-261930- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 230 PM CDT MON AUG 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DOWNBURST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK. ALTHOUGH NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 09
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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.