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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 1994Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1994, 2:33 AM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1994, 2:33 AM CDT (07:33 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1994, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Comanche County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1503 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
1503 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
7.3

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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
May 11, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor64 min
May 11, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones66 min
May 11, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Wise62 min
May 12, 12:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan58 min
May 12, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt2 hr
May 12, 1:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
May 12, 1:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
May 12, 4:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque5 hr
May 12, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMorris, Titus50 min
May 12, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton61 min
May 12, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDScurry69 min
May 12, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell56 min
May 12, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung60 min
May 12, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDScurry46 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.