Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1987, 7:57 AM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1987, 7:57 AM CDT (12:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1987, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eastland 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 768 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 151257
FFWFTW
TXC133-151600-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
757 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING
UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...EASTLAND
EASTLAND COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORTS THAT FLOODING CONTINUES IN EASTLAND
COUNTY. AT 757 AM...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL IN
EASTLAND COUNTY. ALSO...HEAVIER SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS COULD
REDEVELOPE LATER THIS MORNING.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.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 15, 2:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 225 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987 AT 225 AM CDT THE ONLY PRECIPITATION OCCURRING IN CENTRAL TEXAS WAS A RAINSHOWER OVER NORTHERN HILL COUNTY. THE SHOWEFR SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. DRN
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 430 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987 AT 430 AM RADAR...INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE TO FORT WORTH AND ON TO HAMILTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN TARRANT COUNTY...NEAR GRANBURY...NORTHEAST OF BRECKENRIDGE AND SOUTHWEST OF BRECKENRIDGE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT ON RADAR. SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE AREA. MOTORIST SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS OR CROSS STREAMS OF WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. ALSO...EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG WIND AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. STAY TUNED FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 15, 5:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
^FTWFFSFTW URBAN FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH, TX ISSUED 502 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987 ...HIGH WATER ON ROADS IN PORTIONS OF FORT WORTH... AT 455 AM THE FORT WORTH POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT WATER WAS CAUSING A HAZARD TO AUTOMOBILES AT THE INTERSECTION OF BERRY AND HEMPHILL IN SOUTH FORT WORTH. WATER WAS APPARENTLY HIGH ENOUGH TO STALL AUTOMOBILES. WATER WAS ALSO RISING ON I-35 FROM THE MIXMASTER SOUTHWARD TO SEMINARY SOUTH...ALTHOUGH THE ROAD WAS PASSABLE. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG AND SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORM AT 500 AM FROM THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF FORT WORTH EXTENDING INTO SOUTH AND WEST SECTIONS OF TOWN. URBAN FLOODING WILL CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR OR UNTIL THE NEARLY STATIONARY STORM RAINS ITSELF OUT. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY.
Special weather statement, May 15, 7:47 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 730 AM CDT FRI MAY 15 1987 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR TODAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HASKELL TO DALLAS AND WEST OF A LINE FROM DALLAS TO WACO. AT 730 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM NEAR DALLAS SOUTHWEST TO BROWNWOOD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUThHEAST. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FLASH FLOODING IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DRN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 38 min |
| May 15, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 35 min |
| May 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 60 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.