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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1986, 10:20 PM CST for Red River County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1986, 10:20 PM CST (04:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 1986, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Red River 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 5:08 PM CST, 5 hours 12 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 510 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL...LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 5PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF DALLAS TO WAXAHACHIE WESTWARD TO NEAR CLEBURNE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NOTED BETWEEN WAXAHACHIE AND CLEBURNE. OTHER STORMS WERE IN AN AREA FROM FROM LONGVIEW TO ATHENS TO MEXIA. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN CORYELL COUNTY BETWEEN GATESVILLE AND MCGREGOR. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:49 PM CST, 3 hours 31 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 645 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL..LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6:35 PM CST..RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DALLAS..ITALY..AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF HAMILTON. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PgERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:53 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 645 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL..LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6:35 PM CST..RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DALLAS..ITALY..AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF HAMILTON. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PrERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 9:16 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 8:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wood | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 12:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Hopkins | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Titus | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 5:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Smith, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Smith | 115 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.