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Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 31, 1995Haskell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 31, 1995, 9:16 PM CST for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 31, 1995, 9:16 PM CST (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Nov 1, 1995, 12:15 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Haskell County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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 1995-11-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 251 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 1995-11-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
950 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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
Oct 31, 6:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon59 min
Oct 31, 6:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones58 min
Oct 31, 9:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton53 min
Nov 1, 12:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood52 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.