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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS San Angelo, TX

August 18, 2008Crockett County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT for Crockett 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 2008, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Crockett County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 2008-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2008-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 7:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSchleicher2 hr
Aug 17, 8:25 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSutton110 min
Aug 17, 10:18 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSutton3 hr
Aug 18, 12:51 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTCrockett3 hr
Aug 18, 4:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchSJTBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more24 hr
Aug 18, 3:38 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTMcCulloch, San Saba3 hr
Aug 18, 4:57 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTBrown, Coleman4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.