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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 3, 1986, 3:00 PM CST for Camp County, Upshur County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 1986, 3:00 PM CST (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Camp County, TX, Upshur 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 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 032138 COR FFWFTW TXC001-063-161-213-379-423-459-467-499-040000- FLASH FLOOD WARNING -- IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 300PM CST MON FEB 3 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ... ANDERSON...CAMP...FREESTONE HENDERSON...RAINS...SMITH...UPSHUR...VAN ZANDT...AND WOOD. HEAVY RAINS HAVE PERSISTED OVER A LARGE PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...AND RADAR REPORTS SUGGEST THAT OVER THREE INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN SINCE MID MORNING IN THE WARNED COUNTIES. FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT ENOUGH RAIN HAS FALLEN TO CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS IN THE WARNED COUNTIES. THE MAIN THREAT IS FLOODING OF SECONDARY ROADS. SEVERAL COUNTIES...INCLUDING FREESTONE AND VAN ZANDT...REPORT SOME FLOODED ROADWAYS...WHILE OTHER COUNTIES ARE MERELY CLOSE TO HAVING PROBLEMS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED AREAS AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS FROM LOCAL OFFICIALS. MEANWHILE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRA)L TEXAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THE WATCH WILL LIKELY BE EXTENDED INTO TONIGHT AS RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 min |
| Feb 2, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 35 min |
| Feb 2, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 35 min |
| Feb 3, 2:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 6:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Fannin | 95 min |
| Feb 3, 10:00 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 12:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Upshur, Wood | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Rains, Smith, Van Zandt, Wood | 3 hr |
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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.