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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 21, 1994Wood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 21, 1994, 8:22 AM CDT for Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 21, 1994, 8:22 AM CDT (13:22 UTC)
Expired
Oct 21, 1994, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 12:00Z on 1994-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1590 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 12:00Z on 1994-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 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
1590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
9.9

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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, Oct 21, 6:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ144-145-211330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
600 AM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EXTENDED FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES THROUGH TODAY...

AT 550 AM CDT WACO RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM
20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SULPHUR SPRINGS TO 20 MILES NORTH OF DALLAS TO 15
MILES NORTHWEST OF MINERAL WELLS.

THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.

ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN THE WATCH AREA WILL QUICKLY RUN-OFF INTO
ALREADY SWOLLEN CREEKS AND RIVERS AND COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH.
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 6:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ144-145-211330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED MOVEMENT SPEED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
605 AM CDT FRI OCT 21 1994

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH EXTENDED FOR BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES THROUGH TODAY...

AT 550 AM CDT WACO RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM
20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SULPHUR SPRINGS TO 20 MILES NORTH OF DALLAS TO 15
MILES NORTHWEST OF MINERAL WELLS.

THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR.

ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IN THE WATCH AREA WILL QUICKLY RUN-OFF INTO
ALREADY SWOLLEN CREEKS AND RIVERS AND COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
ESPECIALLY IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS FLASH FLOOD WATCH.
Special weather statement, Oct 21, 7:30 AM CDT, 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 21, 7:56 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis62 min
Oct 20, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Oct 20, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Jones64 min
Oct 21, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke65 min
Oct 21, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson59 min
Oct 21, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Grayson60 min
Oct 21, 4:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Grayson4 hr
Oct 21, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Titus65 min
Oct 21, 6:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur, Wood65 min
Oct 21, 6:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Denton, Tarrant3 hr
Oct 21, 6:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin3 hr
Oct 21, 8:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall4 hr
Oct 21, 8:07 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt4 hr
Oct 21, 8:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Oct 21, 10:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman66 min
Oct 21, 1:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas65 min
Oct 21, 2:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall63 min
Oct 21, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Oct 21, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall65 min
Oct 21, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas65 min
Oct 21, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson57 min
Oct 21, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman62 min
Oct 21, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman61 min
Oct 21, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas50 min
Oct 21, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell68 min
Oct 21, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Oct 21, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
Oct 21, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt55 min
Oct 21, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman60 min
Oct 21, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman25 min
Oct 21, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson69 min
Oct 21, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman65 min
Oct 21, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill68 min
Oct 21, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis65 min
Oct 21, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Oct 21, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt60 min
Oct 21, 6:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas4 hr

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.