Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Feb 3, 1986, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)

Expired

Feb 3, 1986, 6:00 PM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Falls County, TX, Limestone County, TX

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

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BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
215 PM CST MON FEB 3 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 6 PM CST FOR FALLS AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES OF TEXAS

HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THESE COUNTIES WITH THE HEAVIEST
ACTIVITY WITH MEXIA REPORTING 7.64 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE 7 AM CST.
THE BISTONE WATER DISTRICT REPORTS THREE FEET OF WATER OVER THE
TOP OF LAKE MEXIA DAM.  THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTS
WATER OVER HIGHWAY 6 NEAR THE TOWN OF REAGAN IN SOUTHERN FALLS
COUNTY.  CONTINUED HEAVY RAIN IN THESE COUNTIES WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL
FLOODING PROBLEMS THROUGOUT THE AFTERNOON.

PERSONS IN THE WARNED COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADYIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

In the hours before

^FTWSPSACT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
830 AM CST MON FEB 3 1986

...VERY HEAVY RAIN IS FALLING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL HAVE
BEEN OCCURRING OVER WESTERN AND SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS
THIS MORNING.  THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS BEEN ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE
FROM KILLEEN TO WACO.  OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT MADISON
COOPER AIRPORT SINCE 6 AM THIS MORNING AND AMOUNTS OF OVER TWO INCHES
ARE COMMON IN THE WACO AREA.  HEWITT REPORTED 2.81 INCHES OF RAIN.

REPORTS OF HIGH WATER ON STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED
IN THE WACO AREA WITH SOME STREETS IN THE CITY CURB DEEP IN WATER.
PERSONS IN CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING
AND SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING OCCUR.
DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH HIGH WATER.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR TO RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986

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.