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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 13, 1994Erath County, Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 1994, 5:02 AM CDT for Erath County, Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1994, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1994, 8:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 28 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: 1143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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 13, 1:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 3:06 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 3:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 4:12 AM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 4:14 AM CDT, 48 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 12, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher	56 min
May 12, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Fisher	48 min
May 12, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	59 min
May 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell, Jones, Stonewall	60 min
May 12, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto	65 min
May 12, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	56 min
May 12, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	59 min
May 12, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	69 min
May 13, 1:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	111 min
May 13, 1:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	4 hr
May 13, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	71 min
May 13, 1:26 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	4 hr
May 13, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Parker	3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	3 hr
May 13, 2:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant	3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack	3 hr
May 13, 2:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	3 hr
May 13, 3:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	48 min
May 13, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	68 min
May 13, 5:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	3 hr
May 13, 12:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	56 min
May 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Upshur	60 min
May 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cherokee, Smith	65 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1994 Every flash flood warning in 1994

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.