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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 29, 1987Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 29, 1987, 4:05 AM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1987, 4:05 AM CDT (09:05 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1987, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Erath 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -475 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, May 28, 11:23 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 12:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 12:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 2:07 AM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 2:13 AM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 3:16 AM CDT, 49 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
May 28, 7:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	115 min
May 28, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	54 min
May 28, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	57 min
May 28, 7:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wichita	3 hr
May 28, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman	61 min
May 28, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	61 min
May 28, 8:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton	117 min
May 28, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt, Wood	68 min
May 28, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	68 min
May 28, 9:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	2 hr
May 28, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur	68 min
May 28, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	68 min
May 28, 9:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wichita	65 min
May 28, 9:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton	3 hr
May 29, 1:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1987 Every flash flood warning in 1987

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.