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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS San Angelo, TX

May 4, 2024Kimble County, Texas

NWS San Angelo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 4, 2024, 1:30 AM 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2024, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2024, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS San Angelo, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Kimble County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 2989 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.0

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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 May 4, 12:47 AM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 12:47 AM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 1:27 PM CDT, 12 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 9:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 9:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 9:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 9:08 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 3, 9:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	45 min
May 3, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher	66 min
May 3, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	33 min
May 3, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion, Tom Green	38 min
May 3, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	22 min
May 3, 8:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	34 min
May 3, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	45 min
May 3, 8:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Schleicher	25 min
May 3, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Kimble, Menard	67 min
May 3, 8:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Kimble, Menard, Schleicher	3 hr
May 3, 8:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Sutton	24 min
May 3, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Kimble, Sutton	52 min
May 3, 10:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Kimble	3 hr
May 3, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Kimble, Mason	65 min
May 4, 2:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	SJT	Kimble	12 hr
May 4, 9:43 AM CDT	Flood Watch	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Haskell and 13 more	18 hr
May 4, 12:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Nolan	35 min
May 4, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	16 min
May 4, 3:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Taylor	111 min
May 4, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	49 min
May 4, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Taylor	27 min
May 4, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	36 min
May 4, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Taylor	4 hr
May 4, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	45 min
May 4, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels	112 min
May 4, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	61 min
May 4, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Concho	24 min
May 4, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	3 hr
May 4, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	57 min
May 4, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Brown	37 min
May 4, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	SJT	Fisher	33 min
May 4, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	44 min
May 4, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown	57 min

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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.