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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 5, 19946 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 1994, 2:27 AM CST for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 1994, 2:27 AM CST (08:27 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 1994, 6:30 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Camp County, TX, Delta County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wood County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.1

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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, 11:25 PM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 4, 11:29 PM CST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 5, 12:25 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 5, 12:31 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 5, 2:15 AM CST, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 4, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wood	60 min
Nov 4, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Coleman, Shackelford	65 min
Nov 4, 6:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Smith, Van Zandt	63 min
Nov 4, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp, Morris, Titus	66 min
Nov 4, 7:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	63 min
Nov 4, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	64 min
Nov 4, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Brown	30 min
Nov 4, 8:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	32 min
Nov 4, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	40 min
Nov 4, 8:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	63 min
Nov 4, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	47 min
Nov 4, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	36 min
Nov 4, 9:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	58 min
Nov 4, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	27 min
Nov 4, 9:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	69 min
Nov 4, 9:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	53 min
Nov 4, 9:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	65 min
Nov 4, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wood	49 min
Nov 4, 10:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Titus	43 min
Nov 4, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Kaufman, Rockwall	52 min
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	4 hr
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 hr
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Rains, Wood	4 hr
Nov 4, 10:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Titus	4 hr
Nov 4, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	53 min
Nov 4, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	61 min
Nov 4, 11:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt, Wood	61 min
Nov 5, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Franklin, Hopkins, Van Zandt, Wood	58 min
Nov 5, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta	58 min
Nov 5, 12:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Titus	56 min
Nov 5, 2:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	4 hr
Nov 5, 2:27 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman	4 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.