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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 4, 1995Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT for Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 1995, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1995, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hill County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 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 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 040539
FFWFTW
TXC217-040945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1237 AM CDT TUE APR 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HILL COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2.50 INCHES HAVE OCCURRED BETWEEN MERIDIAN AND
HILLSBORO SINCE 1000 PM CDT. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE AREA
UNTIL 230 AM CDT WILL LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1
TO 2 INCHES AND THE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS...ROADWAYS AND
FLOOD PRONED AREAS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER~ TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche64 min
Apr 3, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell69 min
Apr 3, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMitchell41 min
Apr 3, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton68 min
Apr 4, 12:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton4 hr
Apr 4, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill65 min
Apr 4, 1:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Apr 4, 3:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Navarro3 hr
Apr 4, 4:17 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill3 hr
Apr 4, 5:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrown, Coleman3 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.