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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 15, 1994Wood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1994, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1994, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3217 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Longview/Gregg, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.5

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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 14, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood62 min
May 14, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas55 min
May 14, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman50 min
May 14, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt49 min
May 14, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson63 min
May 14, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant45 min
May 14, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRockwall64 min
May 14, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains62 min
May 14, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin58 min
May 14, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas47 min
May 14, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt41 min
May 14, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood45 min
May 14, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith, Wood55 min
May 14, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFranklin, Titus57 min
May 14, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson67 min
May 14, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson64 min
May 14, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River46 min
May 14, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith64 min
May 14, 11:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Van Zandt3 hr
May 15, 2:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt118 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.