Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1986, 2:35 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1986, 2:35 PM CDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County McLennan 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KACT 021938 FFWACT TXC309-022100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX (235 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN MCLENNAN COUNTY OF TEXAS. AT 230 PM CDT WACO RADAR AND PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATED FLOODING IN AND AROUND THE CITY OF WACO. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AS REQUIRED.
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, Jun 2, 11:02 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1055 AM CDT MON JUN 2 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY.. AT 1045 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH AND NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM ATHENS TO SULFUR SPRINGS TO SHERMAN MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. NO PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN OR NEAR THE WACO AREA BUT CONDITIONS EXIST FOR POSSIBLE AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL MAINLY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REMEMBER THAT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEARN CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU OBSERVE FLOODING OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED..BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGH GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LO=CAL RADIO AND TV FOR UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 100 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY.. AT 1245 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING ALONG A LINE FROM EAST OF HILLSBORO NEAR MERTENS NORTHEAST TO WAXAHACHIE MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MPH. PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN AND SHOWERS WERE INDICATED EAST OF WACO NEAR GROESBECK WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT. REMEMBER THAT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU OBSERVE FLOODING OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED..BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGH GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:32 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 225 PM CDT MON JUN 2 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY.. AT 225 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST ACROSS THE WACO AREA. SOME MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS COULD OCCUR ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF MCLENNAN COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MOTORIST SHOULD AVOID ANY FLOODED LOW WATER AREAS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM JUST EAST OF HILLSBORO NORTHEAST TO CORSICANA MOVING NORTHEAST 10 MPH. REMEMBER THAT A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN TO DEVELOP AND MOVE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA. IF YOU OBSERVE FLOODING OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED..BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGH GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Scurry | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 68 min |
| Jun 1, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 63 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986
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.