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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 14, 1992Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1992, 11:53 AM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1992, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1992, 1:25 PM CDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Dallas County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 468 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall69 min
May 13, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKnox63 min
May 13, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFoard, Hardeman, Wilbarger56 min
May 14, 10:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton68 min
May 14, 10:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas55 min
May 14, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas65 min
May 14, 11:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant65 min
May 14, 11:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Hunt61 min
May 14, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman2 hr
May 14, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Rockwall75 min
May 14, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMorris, Titus64 min
May 14, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMorris, Titus59 min
May 14, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro100 min
May 14, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur68 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.