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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 11, 1994Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 12:59 AM CDT for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 1994, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1994, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Hamilton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 110604
FFWFTW
TXC193-111000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1259 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HAMILTON COUNTY
 
AT 1259 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED BETWEEN HICO AND EVANT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATED
THAT OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER A LARGE PART OF HAMILTON
COUNTY BETWEEN 11 PM AND 1230 AM.  FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUE IN THE
HICO AREA AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS THE COUNTY
DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOREOVER RADAR INDICATED THAT ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SAN SABA COUNTY WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER HAMILTON
COUNTY LATER THIS MORNING WHICH WILL ONLY EXACERBATE THE FLOODING
PROBLEM.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

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

Local storm report, May 10, 9:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994

...PRELIMINARY NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR MAY 10 1994 DUE TO FLOODING...

 TIME OF
 OCCURRENCE    COUNTY           EVENT
  (CDT)

6:29 PM         COMANCHE        FM 587 CLOSED BTN DOSTER AND CARBON
                                FM 1477 CLOSED BTN HWY 36 AND SIPE
                                SPRINGS; FM 588 UNDERWATER FOR OVER 1/4
                                MILE NEAR BEATTIE
6:55 PM         COMANCHE        3 FT OF WATER ON HWY 36 AT DELEON; HWY
                                587 AT COMANCHE CLOSED
7:00 PM         COMANCHE        MAJOR FLOODING OF RESIDENCES IN DELEON
7:25 PM         HOOD            4 TO 6 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 377 IN
                                DOWNTOWN GRANBURY AND HWY 144 SOUTH OF
                                GRANBURY
7:55 PM         ERATH           WATER OVER HWY 377 BTWN DUBLIN AND SEP
8:00 PM         EASTLAND        WATER OVER HWY 6 BTWN GORMAN AND DELEON
                                AND HWY 36 CLOSED BTWN RISING STAR AND
                                COMANCHE
8:25 PM         HAMILTON        FLOODING OF SIDE STREETS IN HICO
8:26 PM         ERATH           8 INCHES OF WATER ON ROADS IN SEP
8:26 PM         HAMILTON        4 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 6 IN HICO
8:40 PM         SOMERVELL       2 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 67 IN GLEN ROSE
8:45 PM         SOMERVELL       FLOODING ON HWY 67 WEST OF \CHALK MTN,
                                FM 202 AND FM 205

Local storm report, May 10, 9:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994

...PRELIMINARY NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR MAY 10 1994 DUE TO FLOODING...

 TIME OF
 OCCURRENCE    COUNTY           EVENT
  (CDT)

6:29 PM         COMANCHE        FM 587 CLOSED BTN DOSTER AND CARBON
                                FM 1477 CLOSED BTN HWY 36 AND SIPE
                                SPRINGS; FM 588 UNDERWATER FOR OVER 1/4
                                MILE NEAR BEATTIE
6:55 PM         COMANCHE        3 FT OF WATER ON HWY 36 AT DELEON; HWY
                                587 AT COMANCHE CLOSED
7:00 PM         COMANCHE        MAJOR FLOODING OF RESIDENCES IN DELEON
7:25 PM         HOOD            4 TO 6 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 377 IN
                                DOWNTOWN GRANBURY AND HWY 144 SOUTH OF
                                GRANBURY
7:55 PM         ERATH           WATER OVER HWY 377 BTWN DUBLIN AND SEP
8:00 PM         EASTLAND        WATER OVER HWY 6 BTWN GORMAN AND DELEON
                                AND HWY 36 CLOSED BTWN RISING STAR AND
                                COMANCHE
8:25 PM         HAMILTON        FLOODING OF SIDE STREETS IN HICO
8:26 PM         ERATH           8 INCHES OF WATER ON ROADS IN SEP
8:26 PM         HAMILTON        4 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 6 IN HICO
8:40 PM         SOMERVELL       2 INCHES OF WATER ON HWY 67 IN GLEN ROSE
8:45 PM         SOMERVELL       FLOODING ON HWY 67 WEST OF CHALK MTN,
                                FM 202 AND FM 205

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	64 min
May 10, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	60 min
May 10, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	68 min
May 10, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	57 min
May 10, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	59 min
May 10, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	63 min
May 11, 1:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	4 hr
May 11, 2:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mitchell	118 min
May 11, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	118 min
May 11, 3:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	45 min
May 11, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Nolan	2 hr
May 11, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	66 min
May 11, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones, Taylor	61 min
May 11, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	66 min
May 11, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	65 min
May 11, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	55 min
May 11, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	59 min
May 11, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Haskell, Stonewall	19 min
May 11, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Taylor	32 min
May 11, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Haskell	67 min
May 11, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jones, Shackelford	43 min
May 11, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	43 min
May 11, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	62 min
May 11, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Nolan	60 min
May 11, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Shackelford	53 min
May 11, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	56 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.