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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 2, 1995Johnson County, Tarrant County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT for Johnson County, Tarrant County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1995, 9:20 AM CDT (14:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Johnson County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 14 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 814 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
814 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 9:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell4 hr
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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.