Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 1986, 12:54 AM CDT for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1986, 12:54 AM CDT (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1986, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor 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 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jun 4, 7:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 735 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 AT 730 PM..WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS..SOME HEAVY..ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BETWEEN VALLEY VIEW AND TIOGA IN COOKE COUNTY..IN NORTHEAST PARKER COUNTY AND TARRANT COUNTY..IN CENTRAL PALO PINTO COUNTY..AND IN NORTH HAMILTON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS..AND HEAVY RAINFALL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE SHOWING A TENDENCY TO DEVELOP SOUTHEAST. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES.. THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO BE IN OR NEAR THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX AROUND 8 TO 10 PM TONIGHT. AT 715 PM..A HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED 30 TO 40 MILE AN HOUR WINDS USING AN ANEMOMETER AT VALLEY VIEW. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS..AND IF NEEDED..WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 830 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS INCLUDING THE WACO AREA... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS EXIST FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINS IN THE WATCH AREA. ALL PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. AT 825 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN AND AROUND THE BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA MOVING NORTHEAST 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS MOST ALL OF NORTH TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH. NO PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN OR NEAR THE WACO AREA. S0TAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1040 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS INCLUDING THE WACO AREA... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS EXIST FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINS IN THE WATCH AREA. ALL PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. AT 1035 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDRSTORMS ALONG A LINE FROM FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST TO STEPHENVILLE AND INTO NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY NEAR RISING STAR MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. NO PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN OR NEAR THE WACO AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fannin | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 91 min |
| Jun 4, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 109 min |
| Jun 5, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Young | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Taylor | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 114 min |
| Jun 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown | 4 hr |
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.