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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 5, 1986Hopkins County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 5, 1986, 12:20 AM CST for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 1986, 12:20 AM CST (06:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 1986, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hopkins 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 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

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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, 6:53 PM CST, 5 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, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 4, 11:08 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:54 PM CST, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:59 PM CST, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 5, 12:03 AM CST, 17 minutes before

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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 4, 10:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Red River	4 hr
Apr 5, 12:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	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

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.