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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 17, 2016Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 2016, 8:50 PM CDT for Kimble 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: May 17, 2016, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2016, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Kimble County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Del Rio, TX (KDLF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted.

097 
WGUS54 KSJT 180150
FFWSJT
TXC267-180445-
/O.NEW.KSJT.FF.W.0013.160518T0150Z-160518T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
850 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KIMBLE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
    
* AT 847 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS CENTRAL KIMBLE COUNTY. THE WEST TEXAS MESONET
  OBSERVATION SITE NEAR JUNCTION HAS REPORTED 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN
  DURING THE PAST HOUR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES
  ARE EXPECTED THROUGH 1145 PM. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN
  SHORTLY.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  JUNCTION...SEGOVIA...THE INTERSECTION OF I-
  10 AND U.S 83...THE INTERSECTION OF US-
  377 AND RANCH ROAD 385...CLEO AND SOUTH LLANO RIVER STATE PARK.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER CROSSINGS ...
    PARK ROAD 73 CROSSING SOUTH LLANO RIVER...
    US HWY 377 CROSSING SOUTH LLANO RIVER...
    RM 2291 CROSSINGS ALONG BEAR CREEK...
    US HWY 377 CROSSING 2 MILES NORTH OF TELEGRAPH...
    FM 2169 CROSSING JOHNSON FORK CREEK...
    CROSSINGS ALONG COUNTY ROAD 410...
    COUNTY ROAD 275 CROSSING NORTH LLANO RIVER...
    KC 451 CROSSING JOHNSON FORK...
    KC 314 CROSSING LLANO RIVER AND
    KC 210 CROSSING WEST BEAR CREEK.
DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH THESE LOW WATER CROSSINGS OR ANY OTHER
LOW WATER CROSSING WITH WATER FLOWING ACROSS THE ROADWAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

&&

LAT...LON 3067 9960 3035 9958 3035 10000 3068 9998

$$

MC

1 follow-up statement

671 
WGUS74 KSJT 180309
FFSSJT

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1009 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

TXC267-180445-
/O.CON.KSJT.FF.W.0013.000000T0000Z-160518T0445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
KIMBLE TX-
1009 PM CDT TUE MAY 17 2016

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR
CENTRAL KIMBLE COUNTY...

AT 956 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL
CONTINUES ACROSS CENTRAL KIMBLE COUNTY. THE WEST TEXAS MESONET
OBSERVATION SITE NEAR JUNCTION HAS REPORTED 4.14 INCHES OF RAIN. AN
ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH 1145 PM. FLASH FLOODING
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1145 PM. 

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
JUNCTION...SEGOVIA...THE INTERSECTION OF I-
10 AND U.S 83...THE INTERSECTION OF US-
377 AND RANCH ROAD 385...CLEO AND SOUTH LLANO RIVER STATE PARK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. ACT QUICKLY TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.

&&

LAT...LON 3067 9960 3035 9958 3035 10000 3068 9998

$$

MC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 7:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Menard, Schleicher	3 hr
May 17, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	61 min
May 17, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	38 min
May 17, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	39 min
May 17, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Menard	28 min
May 17, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Kimble	64 min
May 17, 8:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Kimble	3 hr
May 17, 9:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Kimble	37 min
May 17, 9:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Kimble	3 hr
May 17, 11:09 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	SJT	Kimble	14 hr
May 18, 1:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	42 min
May 18, 5:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Tom Green	45 min
May 18, 6:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Crockett	51 min
May 18, 7:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Irion	45 min
May 18, 3:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	SJT	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 10 more	17 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.