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Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 4, 1995Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1995, 4:25 AM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1995, 4:25 AM CDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1995, 8:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 435 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Aug 3, 11:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1155 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0914 AM    HOPKINS INTERSECTION      TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   LIMESTONE                      MINOR FLOODING BETWEEN HWY
                                          14 AND GROSBECK

1120 AM    HUBBARD                   TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   HILL                           WATER OVER I-35 1.5 MI
                                          SOUTH OF ABBOT. BRIDGE
                                          FLOODED NEAR HUBBARD
                                          HIGHWAY ?

1130 AM    MEXIA                     TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   LIMESTONE                      STREET FLOODING IN MEXIA

1136 AM    362 MILE MARKER           TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   HILL                           3 FT WATER OVER ACCESS ROAD
                                          TO I-35

1210 PM    ARLINGTON                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   TARRANT                        STREET FLOODED

0339 PM    E OF GLEN ROSE            TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   SOMERVELL                      FLOODING OF RURAL AND
                                          COUNTY
                                          ROADS E OF GLEN ROSE. TREES
                                          DOWN

0400 PM    5 SW GLEN ROSE            TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   SOMERVELL                      6.5 IN RAIN 5 SW GLEN ROSE;
                                          ROADS FLOODED

0425 PM    7 SE STEPHENVILLE         TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   ERATH                          HWY 67 FLOODED AT SELDEN
                                          CUTOFF

0500 PM    ENTIRE COUNTY              TX  FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   ERATH                          WIDESPREAD LOW AREA
                                          FLOODING; SEVERAL MOTORISTS
                                          STRANDED

0710 PM    GRANBURY                  TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   HOOD                           RESIDENTIAL AREA FLOODING
                                          377 W AND HWY 4 N FLOODED

0715 PM                              TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   COMANCHE                       WIDESPREAD FLOODING;

0715 PM    ? S STRAWN                TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   PALO PINTO                     HWY 4 CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
                                          WATER; HWY 16 S OF STRAWN
                                          CLOSED

0720 PM    ? E STEPHENVILLE          TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   ERATH                          HWYS 218,377,67 CLOSED DUE
                                          TO HIGH WATER; HOMES
                                          FLOODED

0804 PM    GORMAN                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
07/31/95   EASTLAND                       HWY 8 UNDERWATER, PERSON
                                          RESCUED OFF TOP OF CAR

0940 PM                              TX   CNTY ROADS WASHED OUT
07/31/95   ERATH

0101 AM                              TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   ROBERTSON                      ROADS UNDERWATER

0148 AM    ? CAMERON                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   MILAM                          FM 1644, 485 E, HWY 79
                                          WATER OVER ROADS

0150 AM    ? MARLIN                  TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   FALLS                          WATER ACROSS ROADWAYS

0415 AM    CALVERT/HEARNE            TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   MILAM/ROBERTSON                FM 1644 AT 109 BTW CALVERT
                                          HEARNE. WATER OVER ROAD

0500 AM    ? MEXIA                   TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   LIMESTONE                      CO. ROAD FLOODED

0520 AM    ? CALVERT                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   ROBERTSON                      HWY 6 UNDERWATER BTW HEARNE
                                          AND CALVERT

0815 AM    ? CALVERT                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   ROBERTSON                      FLOODS RECEDING ON HWY 6

0915 AM    DALLAS                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   DALLAS                         S. LAMAR FLOODED

0305 PM    MARLIN                    TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   FALLS/ROBERTSON                FLOODING IN S MARLIN; HWY 6
                                          BTW HEARN AND CAL FLOODED

0330 PM    LAKE MEXIA                TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   LIMESTONE                      ROADS FLOODED NEAR LAKE
                                          MEXIA

0359 PM    SANTO                     TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   PALO PINTO                     FM 4 NORTH OF SANTO FLOODED
                                          WATER IN HOUSES

0430 PM    6E MARLIN                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   FALLS                          HWY 7 EAST, 1 FOOT DEEP
                                          OVER ROADWAY

0547 PM    LAKE PALO PINTO           TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   PALO PINTO                     HWY 4 STILL FLOODED; LAKE
                                          AT BANKFULL

0705 PM    GATESVILLE                TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   CORYELL                        ALL STREETS UNDERWATER IN
                                      GATESVILLE

0847 PM    CRANFILLS GAP             TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/01/95   BOSQUE                         HWY 219 BTW CRANFILLS GAP
                                          FLOODED

0805 AM    GLEN ROSE                 TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/02/95   SOMERVELL                      SHERIFF REPORT FLOODING
                                          THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0840 AM    AZLE                      TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/02/95   PARKER                         FLOODING BTW AZLE LAKE WEA-
                                          THERFORD

0914 AM    CRANFILLS GAP             TX   FLASH FLOODING
08/02/95   BOSQUE                         HWYS 216,927,22,170,

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 3:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens2 hr
Aug 4, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche3 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.