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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 3, 1986Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1986, 9:15 PM CST for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 105 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 3, 1986, 9:15 PM CST (03:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 3, 1986, 11:00 PM CST
In force
105 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-02-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 317 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
526 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.