Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1987, 8:40 PM CDT for Delta County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1987, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1987, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delta 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 160140
FFWFTW
TXC119-160545-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
840 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
...DELTA
AT 840 PM...THE DELTA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT
EXTENSIVE FLOODING WAS STILL OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF COOPER. ABOUT
4.25 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IS THIS AREA. ALSO...MANY TREES AND
POWER LINES ARE DOWN FROM THUNDERSTORM WINDS. PRESENTLY IT IS NOT
RAINING IN DELTA COUNTY AND THE FLOODING IS THE RESULT OF PREVIOUS
STORMS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.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 15, 4:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 435 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL TEXAS... AT 4:30 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS REPORTED LAST HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES HAD DISSIPATED. ELSEWHERE...RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS FROM NORTHEAST OF TYLER TO NEAR LAKE LIVINGSTON. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 450 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ATHENS...CORSICANA...PALESTINE...AND TYLER. THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX IS NOT IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 450 PM...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG ...WERE OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM PITTSBURG TO TYLER...FROM CROCKETT TO LUFKIN AND NEAR CENTER. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN... WHICH COULD QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS...EVEN IF THE WATER APPEARS TO BE SHALLOW. CARS CAN EASILY STALL AND TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM A CAR IN FAST RUNNING WATER CAN BE FATAL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 520 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM FOR HOPKINS COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS. SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE ATHENS...CORSICANA...PALESTINE...AND TYLER. THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX IS NOT IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 520 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE RED RIVER...NORTH OF PARIS...TO SULPHUR SPRINGS TO SOUTH OF LUFKIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR SULPHUR SPRINGS AND SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST OF LUFKIN. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN... WHICH COULD QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS...EVEN IF THE WATER APPEARS TO BE SHALLOW. CARS CAN EASILY STALL AND TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM A CAR IN FAST RUNNING WATER CAN BE FATAL. ALSO...THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF THE THUNDERSTORM IN HOPKINS COUNTY...MOVE INTO THE INTERIOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 710 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR DELTA COUNTY. AT 710 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTH OF PARIS...TO TYLER TO PALESTINE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN PARIS AND COOPER AND EAST OF PALESTINE. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUTHWEST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN. TIRA IN NORTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY REPORTED 3.20 INCHES OF RAIN. EXTENSIVE FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN COOPER. LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES CAN FLOOD QUICKLY. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS..!.EVEN IF THE WATER APPEARS TO BE SHALLOW. CARS CAN EASILY STALL AND TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM A CAR IN FAST RUNNING WATER CAN BE FATAL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 715 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING OVER BRAZOS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 7:10 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM VERY NEAR EASTERWOOD AIRPORT AT COLLEGE STATION. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AND DECREASING IN INTENSITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM GIDDINGS EASTWARD TO THE ROAN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS OVER BRAZOS COUNTY HAS+ DECREASED IN INTENSITY... THE OVERALL AREA OF STORMS HAS INCREASED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST HOUR. PERSONS IN BRAZOS...MADISON...AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES SHOULD LISTEN FOR UPDATES ON THESE STORMS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 8:16 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 815 PM CDT MON JUN 15 1987 A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR DELTA COUNTY. AT 815 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF EAST TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN PARIS AND COOPER...NEAR QUITMAN...NEAR ATHENS AND BETWEEN PALESTINE AND FAIRFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN. TIRA IN NORTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY REPORTED 3.20 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER THIS EVENING. EXTENSIVE FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED IN COOPER. LOW LYING AREAS AND UNDERPASSES CAN FLOOD QUICKLY. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS...EVEN IF THE WATER APPEARS TO BE SHALLOW. IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO JUDGE THE FORCE OF FLOWING WATER AND YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEPT AWAY. THIS IS HOW MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIOe FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brazos | 58 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.