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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 1, 1995Bosque County, Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 1995, 9:06 PM CDT for Bosque County, Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bosque County, TX, Coryell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1366 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 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 020209
FFWFTW
TXC035-099-363-020615-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
906 PM CDT TUE AUG 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BOSQUE COUNTY...CORYELL COUNTY...PALO PINTO COUNTY
 
AT 900 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE
AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF A LINE FROM DECATUR TO
FORT WORTH TO HILLSBORO TO WACO TO TEMPLE. THIS AREA WAS MOVING NORTH AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES BY MIDNIGHT OVER
SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING
OF STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS..AND ROADWAYS IN THE WARNED COUNTIES.
 
AT 845 PM CDT...THE CORYELL COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT INDICATED THAT ALL
STREETS IN GATESVILLE REMAINED IMPASSABLE WITH OTHER SECONDARY ROADWAYS
EXPERIENCING HIGH WATER. IN PALO PINTO COUNTY...HIGHWAY 281 SOUTH OF
MINERAL WELLS AND FARM TO MARKET ROAD 45 SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF PALO PINTO
REMAINED CLOSED IN PARTS. IN BOSQUE COUNTY...HIGHWAY 219 BETWEEN CRANFIL
GAP AND CLIFTON REMAINED UNDER WATER.
 
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.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 9:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto4 hr
Aug 2, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque4 hr
Aug 2, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto4 hr
Aug 2, 3:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTaylor6 hr
Aug 2, 8:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
Aug 2, 8:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDSomervell4 hr
Aug 2, 8:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker4 hr
Aug 2, 9:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant, Wise4 hr
Aug 2, 10:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
Aug 2, 3:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Somervell2 hr
Aug 2, 5:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton3 hr
Aug 2, 5:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Somervell3 hr
Aug 2, 6:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.