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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX

June 2, 2016Taylor County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2016, 10:16 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. 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 2, 2016, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2016, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 235 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 215 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
215 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

409 
WGUS54 KSJT 030316
FFWSJT
TXC441-030515-
/O.NEW.KSJT.FF.W.0021.160603T0316Z-160603T0515Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
1016 PM CDT THU JUN 2 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
    
* AT 1015 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
  FALLEN ACROSS PARTS OF THE CITY WHICH IS CAUSING FLASH FLOODING OF
  INTERSECTIONS...UNDERPASSES...AND OTHER LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE
  AREAS. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  ABILENE...TYE...BUFFALO GAP...VIEW...HAMBY...POTOSI...DYESS AFB...
  IMPACT AND KIRBY LAKE.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LOW WATER CROSSINGS ...
    INTERSECTIONS ALONG BUTTONWILLOW PARKWAY...
    INTERSECTIONS ALONG SAMMONS STREET...
    CURRY LANE FROM CLACK STREET TO CATCLAW DRIVE...
    TEXAS AVENUE AT ARNOLD BOULEVARD...
    BUTTERNUT UNDERPASS...
    ANTILLEY RD CROSSING BUTTON WILLOW CREEK...
    INTERSECTIONS ALONG SOUTH 25TH STREET...
    INDUSTRIAL BETWEEN TREADAWAY AND SAYLES...
    SOUTH 20TH STREET AND BRENTWOOD AND
    SOUTH 27TH STREET AT CATCLAW 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.

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

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3252 9963 3226 9963 3225 9997 3252 9989

$$

SN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 10:15 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningSJTShackelford, Throckmorton4 days
Jun 3, 2:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTKimble, Mason, Menard3 hr
Jun 3, 9:22 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSJTBrown4 days
Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSan Saba3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2016Every flash flood warning in 2016

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.