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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 11, 1994Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 1:06 AM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1994, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1994, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bosque County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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 KACT 110631 COR
FFWACT
TXC035-111015-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED TIME IN BODY OF STATEMENT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
130 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO TX  HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......

IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...BOSQUE COUNTY

AT 1230 AM MORGAN FIRE DEPT. CHIEF REPORTS STEELE CREEK OVER ITS BANKS
AND FLOODING FM ROAD 927 IN MANY LOCATIONS. FM 927 HAS BEEN BARRICADED
AS SOME LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE UP TO 4 FEET UNDER WATER. AT 1256 AM
RADAR ALSO SHOWS MORE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE AFFECTED AREA OF
NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS
SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABONDANED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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 23 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 21 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls64 min
May 10, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche60 min
May 10, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone68 min
May 10, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque57 min
May 10, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon, Robertson59 min
May 10, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill63 min
May 11, 12:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton4 hr
May 11, 2:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMitchell118 min
May 11, 2:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell118 min
May 11, 3:45 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDMitchell45 min
May 11, 4:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNolan2 hr
May 11, 4:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan66 min
May 11, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Taylor61 min
May 11, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall66 min
May 11, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell65 min
May 11, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall55 min
May 11, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung59 min
May 11, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHaskell, Stonewall19 min
May 11, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor32 min
May 11, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHaskell67 min
May 11, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones, Shackelford43 min
May 11, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMitchell43 min
May 11, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack62 min
May 11, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNolan60 min
May 11, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford53 min
May 11, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Wise56 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.