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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 15, 1994Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1994, 3:35 AM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1994, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1994, 7:00 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hunt County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 194 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jul 15, 12:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Denton3 hr
Jul 15, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt3 hr
Jul 15, 1:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr
Jul 15, 3:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Denton4 hr
Jul 15, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin39 min

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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.