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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS San Angelo, TX

September 21, 2018Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 2018, 3:37 AM CDT for Irion County, Sterling County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Sep 21, 2018, 3:37 AM CDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 2018, 7:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS San Angelo, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Irion County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:40 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 2018-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 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 00:00Z on 2018-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Sep 21, 12:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 21, 12:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 20, 8:10 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningSJTRunnels19 hr
Sep 21, 12:09 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTCrockett3 hr
Sep 21, 3:04 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTCoke, Crockett, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green4 hr
Sep 21, 4:46 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTCoke, Nolan, Sterling3 hr
Sep 21, 5:55 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTFisher, Nolan2 hr
Sep 21, 6:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Irion3 hr
Sep 21, 7:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Irion, Schleicher, Sutton, Tom Green4 hr
Sep 21, 7:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke, Nolan, Sterling4 hr
Sep 21, 7:39 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTTom Green111 min
Sep 21, 7:42 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTHaskell2 hr
Sep 21, 8:34 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTRunnels, Schleicher, Sutton, Tom Green3 hr
Sep 21, 11:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Schleicher, Sutton3 hr
Sep 21, 11:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTConcho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green3 hr
Sep 21, 12:14 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTHaskell, Jones3 hr
Sep 21, 1:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCrockett, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton3 hr
Sep 21, 3:42 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTHaskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton3 hr
Sep 21, 4:15 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningSJTSchleicher, Sutton4 hr
Sep 21, 5:12 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTTom Green114 min
Sep 21, 5:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTShackelford3 hr
Sep 21, 6:33 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisorySJTSchleicher93 min

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.