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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 4, 1994Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 4, 1994, 10:31 PM CST for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 4, 1994, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)
Expired
Nov 5, 1994, 2:30 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1994-11-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-11-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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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, Nov 4, 6:53 PM CST, 3 hours 38 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-050100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
650 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1994

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR HILL...BOSQUE...MCLENNAN...FALLS
LIMESTONE...AND LEON COUNTIES THROUGH TONIGHT...

AT 645 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WACO WAS DETECTING
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN AN AREA 25 MILES WIDE FROM
10 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF WEST TO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WACO.
ELSEWHERE...A SMALL AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED 15 MILES
SOUTH OF GROESBECK.

MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPIITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DAMAGIMG WINDS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...HAIL...AND TORNADOES.

RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

ALSO THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM CST FOR
BOSQUE...CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE...BELL...FALLS...
ROBERTSON AND LEON COUNTIES WAS CANCELLED AT 645 PM CST.

KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

RRR
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 7:55 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>162-175-050100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
755 PM CST FRI NOV 4 1994

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR HILL...BOSQUE...MCLENNAN...FALLS
LIMESTONE...AND LEON COUNTIES THROUGH TONIGHT...
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 1100 PM CST FOR...HILL...BOSQUE...FALLS...
CORYELL...MCLENNAN...LIMESTONE...BELL...ROBERTSON AND LEON COUNTIES.

AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN WACO WAS DETECTING
VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
FAIRFIELD TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARLIN.
ELSEWHERE..LIGHT RAIN WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE FROM 15
MILES EAST OF HILLSBORO TO EAST OF WACO AND TO TEMPLE.

MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...DAMAGIMG WINDS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES...HAIL...AND TORNADOES.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

RRR
Special weather statement, Nov 4, 8:01 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 4, 6:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWood60 min
Nov 4, 6:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Coleman, Shackelford65 min
Nov 4, 6:42 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDSmith, Van Zandt63 min
Nov 4, 7:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Titus66 min
Nov 4, 7:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown63 min
Nov 4, 7:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt64 min
Nov 4, 8:00 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDBrown30 min
Nov 4, 8:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath32 min
Nov 4, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton40 min
Nov 4, 8:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill63 min
Nov 4, 8:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell47 min
Nov 4, 9:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson36 min
Nov 4, 9:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan58 min
Nov 4, 9:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis27 min
Nov 4, 9:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell69 min
Nov 4, 9:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas53 min
Nov 4, 9:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill65 min
Nov 4, 9:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWood49 min
Nov 4, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Titus43 min
Nov 4, 10:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Kaufman, Rockwall52 min
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt4 hr
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCamp, Franklin, Rains, Wood4 hr
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDTitus4 hr
Nov 4, 10:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt53 min
Nov 4, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins61 min
Nov 4, 11:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt, Wood61 min
Nov 5, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFranklin, Hopkins, Van Zandt, Wood58 min
Nov 5, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta58 min
Nov 5, 12:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTitus56 min
Nov 5, 2:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCamp, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Titus, Wood4 hr
Nov 5, 2:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt4 hr
Nov 5, 2:27 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.