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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 14, 1990Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 14, 1990, 10:48 PM CST for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 14, 1990, 10:48 PM CST (04:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 1990, 12:45 AM CST
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ellis 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1990-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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, Mar 14, 7:27 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
730 PM CST WED MAR 14 1990

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST TEXAS HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 86...

ANGELINA     HARRISON    MARION    PANOLA    SABINE    SAN AUGUSTINE
SHELBY.

AT 730 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED  ACROSS NORTHEASTERN TEXAS AND INTO LOUISIANA.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE LINGERED BEHIND THE
THE LINE OF STORMS BUT POSE NO THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE WATCH
AREA HAS BEEN CHANGED TO REFLECT THIS CONDITION.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION AS
CONDITIONS WARRANT.

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.