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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Fort Worth, TX

December 26, 1987Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 26, 1987, 4:21 AM CST for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 26, 1987, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
Expired
Dec 26, 1987, 8:00 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-12-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-12-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 300 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
519 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, Dec 25, 10:35 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1030 PM CST FRI DEC 25 1987

AT 1025 PM CST A 15 TO 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
TO VERY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WAS FROM MOODY...TO WACO...TO LAKE NAVARRO
MILLS. PERSONS IN SOUTHEASTERN HILL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE AND
NORTHERN FALLS COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Dec 25, 11:44 PM CST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1135 PM CST FRI DEC 25 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL MOVE THROUGH
THE WACO AREA...

AT 11:30 PM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS
OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A FEW OF THE
STRONGER STORMS ARE DUMPING LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN IN MCLENNAN
...FALLS...BELL...LIMESTONE...AND HILL COUNTIES.

MOST OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE ALONG A BAND BETWEEN ROGERS IN
EASTERN BELL COUNTY...TO NORTH OF MARLIN IN FALLS COUNTY...TO WEST
OF MEXIA IN LIMESTONE COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
EAST OF ITASCA IN HILL COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION AREA WAS MOVING
EAST WITH INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAINFALL FELL IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES AT MADISON COOPER
AIRPORT EARLIER THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH NO REPORTS OF STREET FLOODING
HAS BEEN RECEIVED...MOTORISTS SHOULD DRIVE WITH CAUTION SINCE SOME
MINOR FLOODING MAY BE IN PROGRESS AT UNDERPASSES OR WHERE PONDING
USUALLY OCCURS. IN ADDITION...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
AND SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Dec 26, 1:18 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
110 AM CST SAT DEC 26 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY RAIN CONTINUING OVER BELL COUNTY IN
CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 1:00 AM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS
ACROSS MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES. RAINFALL IN SOME COUNTIES
IS APPROACHING ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS APPEAR
TO HAVE BEEN IN BELL AND NORTHERN LIMESTONE COUNTIES. WACO DPS REPORTED
SOME MINOR FLOODING 2 MILES NORTH OF COOLIDGE ON HIWY 171 IN LIMESTONE
COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. NO OTHER REPORTS OF FLOODING HAS BEEN
RECEIVED.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE PRESENTLY LOCATED IN WESTERN BELL COUNTY
WHERE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. BELL COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT
NO FLOODING AT THIS TIME. NEVERTHELESS...SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY BE
ALREADY IN PROGRESS IN RURAL AREAS.
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OTHERWISE...RADAR SHOWED RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING
MUCH OF THE AREA BOUNDED BY GREENVILLE...LLA;NO...AUSTIN...AND TYLER.
THE PRECIPITATION AREA WAS MOVING EAST.

PERSONS IN MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY
IN BELL...FALLS...AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Dec 26, 1:22 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
110 AM CST SAT DEC 26 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER BELL COUNTY IN
CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 1:00 AM CST NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS
ACROSS MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES. RAINFALL IN SOME COUNTIES
IS APPROACHING ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS APPEAR
TO HAVE BEEN IN BELL AND NORTHERN LIMESTONE COUNTIES. WACO DPS REPORTED
SOME MINOR FLOODING 2 MILES NORTH OF COOLIDGE ON HIWY 171 IN LIMESTONE
COUNTY DURING THE PAST HOUR. NO OTHER REPORTS OF FLOODING HAS BEEN
RECEIVED.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE PRESENTLY LOCATED IN WESTERN BELL COUNTY
WHERE HEAVY RAINS HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. BELL COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT
NO FLOODING AT THIS TIME. NEVERTHELESS...SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY BE
ALREADY IN PROGRESS IN RURAL AREAS.
<
OTHERWISE...RADAR SHOWED RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING
MUCH OF THE AREA BOUNDED BY GREENVILLE...LLANO...AUSTIN...AND TYLER.
THE PRECIPITATION AREA WAS MOVING EAST.

PERSONS IN MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING...ESPECIALLY
IN BELL...FALLS...AND LIDMESTONE COUNTIES.
Special weather statement, Dec 26, 2:29 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
220 AM CST SAT DEC 26 1987

...HEAVY RAINS EASING OUT OF BELL COUNTY AND INTO SOUTHERN MCLENNAN
AND WESTERN FALLS COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 2:15 AM CST RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER PORTIONS OF CORYELL...
MCLENNAN...BELL...AND FALLS COUNTIES. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SUCH FAST MOVING STORMS ARE NOT USUALLY A
THREAT TO FLOODING...HOWEVER THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK ACROSS
PORTIONS OF MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL
HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.

THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS ARE PRESENTLY FALLING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF
GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY...TO MARLIN IN FALLS COUNTY...TO
ROGERS IN SOUTHEAST BELL COUNTY. RAINFALL TOTALS ARE ESTIMATED TO
BE FROM ONE TO TWO INCHES...POSSIBLY GREATER IN SOME LOCATIONS. THESE
VALUES ARE APPROACHING FLASH FLOOD POTENTIAL. BELL COUNTY OFFI~CIALS
REPORT LEVY CROSSING CLOSED ON NOLAN CREEK NEAR NOLANVILLE DUE TO
HIGH WATER.

PERSONS IN MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES ARE ADVISED TO LISTEN
FOR LATER STATEMENTS...OR FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 26, 3:22 AM CST, 59 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 26, 1:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
Dec 26, 2:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDUpshur, Wood4 hr
Dec 26, 2:22 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt4 hr
Dec 26, 2:43 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls, McLennan3 hr
Dec 26, 6:37 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDUpshur113 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.