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Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 25, 201716 counties in Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 25, 2017, 3:27 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 25, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 57 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 2017, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 25, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 28, 2017, 4:02 AM CDT
In force
57 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Flood severity
None

Counties Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 12:00Z on 2017-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 922 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2017-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
922 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.6

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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.