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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1987Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1987, 1:52 PM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1987, 1:52 PM CDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1987, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Coryell 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 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, Jun 3, 9:01 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1045 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SECTION OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING BRAZOS..MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES FOR
TODAY...

AT 1040 AM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAIN..WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD INTO BRAZOS COUNTY AND EXTENDED
NORTHEASTWARD INTO MADISON AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST LEON COUNTIES.  THE
HEAVIEST RAIN WAS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLLEGE STATION NEAR THE TOWN
OF SOMERVILLE.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..HEAVY SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY
15 MILES WEST OF GATESVILLE.  LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING FROM
NEAR MERIDIAN TO NORTH OF HILLSBORO.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF HILL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES..
HOWEVER RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS RAINS COULD STILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF
LOW LYING AND NORMALLY FLOOD PRONE AREAS.  PERSONS IN THESE AREA
SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING BE
OBSERVED.  PERSONS IN SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE
POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE
NECESSARY ACTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD
THE NEED OCCUR.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER EITHER IN VEHICLES
OR ON FOOT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1200 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SECTION OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING BRAZOS..MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES FOR
TODAY...

AT 1155 AM CDT LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING OVER MOST OF BRAZOS COUNTY.  THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE ISOLATED OVER WESTERN BELL
COUNTY NEAR KILLEEN..WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY NEAR EVANT AND NORTHERN
HILL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF CORYELL COUNTY..HOWEVER VERY
HEAVY RAIN IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY DUMPED 2.68 INCHES OF
RAIN IN TWO HOURS IN THE TOWN OF BEE HOUSE.  THE RUNOFF FROM THIS
RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING DOWN BEE HOUSE CREEK AND INTO COW HOUSE
CREEK NEAR FORT HOOD.  PERSONS ALONG BEE HOUSE CREEK SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS RUNOFF AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING BE OBSERVED.  PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST
TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING AND SHOULD
BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY SHOULD THE NEED OCCUR.  DOk NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH
WATER EITHER IN VEHICLES OR ON FOOT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.
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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

NORTH TEXAS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1145 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING OVER A PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IS OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY EAST
OF A PARIS...GREENVILLE...CORSICANA...CENTERVILLE LINE. HEAVY RAIN IS
ALSO A STRONG POSSIBILITY SINCE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS TEND TO MOVE
SLOWLY ONCE THEY FORM.

LATE THIS MORNING A COLD FRONT HAD WALLOWED DOWN INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS
FROM THE SHREVEPORT AREA WEST TO NEAR WACO. THIS FRONT WAS INTERACTING
WITH A BOUNDARY SEPARATING WARM...MOIST AIR...FROM AN AIRMASS COOLED
BY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS LAST NIGHT. THE BOUNDARY STRETCHED ROUGHLY
FROM THE FRONT EAST OF DALLAS...SOUTH TO NEAR HOUSTON. THUNDERSTORMS
FORMING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY...AND PARTICULARLY THOSE NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF THE BOUNDARY AND THE COLD FRONT...OFFER THE GREATEST
POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AS HEATING
CONTINUES IN THE RELATIVELY UNDISTURBED AIR TO THE EAST.

ELSEWHERE OVER NORTH TEXAS THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON IN
RESPONSE TO A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SITUATED OVER
CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR STEPHENVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS OFFER LESS CHANCE
FOR SEVERE WEATHER SINCE DAYTIME HEATING IS EXPECTED TO BE LIMITED DUE
TO CLOUD COVER AND NORTHERLY WINDS.

STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS OVER EAST TEX~AS MAY WANT TO STAY ON THE ALERT
IN CASE ACTIVATION IS REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

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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
Jun 2, 11:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Brazos	4 hr
Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	4 hr
Jun 3, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	57 min
Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls	62 min
Jun 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	30 min
Jun 3, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	44 min

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.