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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 31, 1988Callahan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1988, 9:13 PM CDT for Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 1988, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 1988, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Callahan 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 2529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.6

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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 31, 3:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 7:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 31, 8:47 PM CDT, 26 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 31, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	68 min
May 31, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wichita	68 min
May 31, 7:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	2 hr
May 31, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	2 hr
May 31, 10:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	3 hr
May 31, 11:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Callahan	3 hr
Jun 1, 12:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	2 hr
Jun 1, 1:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	4 hr
Jun 1, 2:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton	4 hr
Jun 1, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	4 hr
Jun 1, 5:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	3 hr
Jun 1, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell, Jones	63 min
Jun 1, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	69 min
Jun 1, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	59 min
Jun 1, 4:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jones	58 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Taylor	59 min
Jun 1, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Callahan	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1988 Every flash flood warning in 1988

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.