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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 1992, 8:26 AM CST for Hopkins County, Rains County, Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1992, 8:26 AM CST (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1992, 12:30 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, TX, Rains County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
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 9, 3:17 AM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ031-037-032-091015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 315 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL...FALLS... HILL...LIMESTONE...MCLENNAN...ROBERTSON AND LEON COUNTIES OF TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH MONDAY... AT 310 AM CST A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM NEAR MESQUITE TO NEAR HAMILTON TO WEST OF BURNET. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS OCCURRING IN BOSQUE COUNTY NORTH AND SOUTHWEST OF WALNUT SPRINGS AND IN HILL COUNTY NORTH OF WHITNEY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN IN HAMILTON...LAMPASAS AND BURNET COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...ESPECIALLY BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUND AND SWOLLEN RIVERS AND LAKES...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS AND AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A SURFACE COLD FRONT IS APPROACHING CENTRAL TEXAS FROM THE WEST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTSf.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 4:51 AM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ031-037-032-091145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 449 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE...MCLENNAN AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BRAZOS...LEON...MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS FOR TODAY... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR CENTRAL TEXAS IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... AT 440 AM CST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE OCCURRING IN AN AREA THAT EXTENDED NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM WEST OF TYLER TO EAST OF KILLEEN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER HILL COUNTY SOUTH OF WHITNEY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER BELL COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF TEMPLE AND OVER EXTREME NORTHERN HILL COUNTY NORTH OF ITASCA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN HILL COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND A SURFACE COLD FRONT IS MOVING TOWARD CENTRAL TEXAS AND SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE AREA UNTIL THE SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH. PERSONS IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREASf ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 6:22 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ031-037-032-091330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 621 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CST FOR BELL...BOSQUE... CORYELL...FALLS...HILL...LEON...LIMESTONE...MCLENNAN AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BRAZOS...LEON...MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES FOR TODAY... AT 615 AM CST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM EAST OF DALLAS TO NORTHEAST OF MARBLE FALLS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE WILLIAMSON/BURNET COUNTY LINE NEAR BRIGGS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN BELL COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING NEAR KILLEEN IN BELL COUNTY AND EAST OF HILLSBORO IN HILL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEME?NTS.
Special weather statement, Mar 9, 6:47 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 9, 8:19 AM CST, 7 minutes before
TXZ019>033-091500- SPECIAL WEATHER AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 815 AM CST MON MAR 9 1992 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTNEDED FROM TEXARKANA TO WACO. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CANTON IN CENTRAL VAN ZANDT COUNTY AND JUST SOUTH OF SULPHUR SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH WHILE THE LINE MOVED SLOWLY EAST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS ALONG AND EAST OF A PARIS...ATHENS...FAIRFIELD LINE INCLUDING THE CITIES OF TYLER...CLARKSVILLE AND LUFKIN. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PART OF NORTHEAST TEXAS AND A SMALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCLsUDING THE CITIES OF CORSICANA... WAXAHACHIE...KAUFMAN...CANTON...TYLER...AND RUSK. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Baylor | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 69 min |
| Mar 8, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Taylor | 69 min |
| Mar 8, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 68 min |
| Mar 8, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 9:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 59 min |
| Mar 8, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 60 min |
| Mar 8, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 67 min |
| Mar 9, 6:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 67 min |
| Mar 9, 6:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 7:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 37 min |
| Mar 9, 8:26 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Wood | 4 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 60 min |
| Mar 9, 12:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Titus | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Morris, Upshur | 5 hr |
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.