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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 10, 1995Smith County, Upshur County, Wood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 1995, 6:42 PM CDT for Smith County, Upshur County, Wood County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1995, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1995, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Smith County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 651 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -463 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 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 102342
FFWFTW
TXC063-159-343-423-449-459-499-110245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
642 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...CAMP COUNTY...FRANKLIN COUNTY...MORRIS COUNTY...SMITH COUNTY
   ...TITUS COUNTY...UPSHUR COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 637 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
FROM NEAR CLARKSVILLE TO TYLER TO PALESTINE. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS TO
THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...WITH
REPORTS OF SCATTERED FLOODING IN FRANKLIN...TITUS...WOOD AND SMITH
COUNTIES.
 
RADAR ESTIMATED THE RAINFALL BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR INCHES IN THE PAST
THREE HOURS IN THIS AREA...WITH THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE ACROSS
THE SATURATED GROUNDS. RUN-OFF WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA
DURING THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS WITH MANY LOW-LYING AREAS FLOODING.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLO.WING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
 
 
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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, Apr 10, 1:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
149 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995

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

1140 PM    2 W MCGREGOR              TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   MCLENNAN

1231 PM    DESOTO                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   DALLAS

1238 PM    ITASCA                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   HILL

1253 PM    DALLAS                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/10/95   DALLAS                         STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE
                                          TO COUNTY MAINTENANCE BLDG

1254 PM    W OF WAXAHACHIE           TX   LIGHTNING
04/10/95   ELLIS                          LIGHTNING STRUCK A
                                          TRANSFORMER.

0106 PM    W OF WAXAHACHIE           TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   ELLIS                          RELAYED BY WSO ACT

0106 PM    S OF MIDLOTHIAN           TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   ELLIS                          RELAYED BY WSO ACT

0134 PM    KELLER                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT                        RELAYED BY ZFW

0141 PM    BENBROOK                  TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT

0141 PM    EDGECLIFF                 TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT

0147 PM    FORT WORTH                TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT                        RELAYED BY SRH

Local storm report, Apr 10, 1:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
149 PM CDT MON APR 10 1995

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

1140 PM    2 W MCGREGOR              TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   MCLENNAN

1231 PM    DESOTO                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   DALLAS

1238 PM    ITASCA                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   HILL

1253 PM    DALLAS                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/10/95   DALLAS                         STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE
                                          TO COUNTY MAINTENANCE BLDG

1254 PM    W OF WAXAHACHIE           TX   LIGHTNING
04/10/95   ELLIS                          LIGHTNING STRUCK A
                                          TRANSFORMER.

0106 PM    W OF WAXAHACHIE           TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   ELLIS                          RELAYED BY WSO ACT

0106 PM    S OF MIDLOTHIAN           TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   ELLIS                          RELAYED BY WSO ACT

0134 PM    KELLER                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT                        RELAYED BY ZFW

0141 PM    BENBROOK                  TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT

0141 PM    EDGECLIFF                 TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95   TARRANT

0147 PM    FORT WORTH                TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/>95   TARRANT                        RELAYED BY SRH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher, Stonewall	56 min
Apr 10, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	58 min
Apr 10, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher	64 min
Apr 10, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	64 min
Apr 10, 10:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	55 min
Apr 10, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Wise	60 min
Apr 10, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	56 min
Apr 10, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	52 min
Apr 10, 12:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	68 min
Apr 10, 12:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	40 min
Apr 10, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	52 min
Apr 10, 12:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	3 hr
Apr 10, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	69 min
Apr 10, 12:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis	61 min
Apr 10, 1:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	59 min
Apr 10, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	64 min
Apr 10, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	61 min
Apr 10, 1:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	55 min
Apr 10, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	65 min
Apr 10, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	57 min
Apr 10, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	63 min
Apr 10, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	65 min
Apr 10, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	60 min
Apr 10, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	69 min
Apr 10, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	54 min
Apr 10, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson	59 min
Apr 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	71 min
Apr 10, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	61 min
Apr 10, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	62 min
Apr 10, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	62 min
Apr 10, 4:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Kaufman	3 hr
Apr 10, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	59 min
Apr 10, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	63 min
Apr 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Upshur	31 min
Apr 10, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Apr 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Franklin, Titus	60 min
Apr 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp, Morris	65 min
Apr 10, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Red River	65 min
Apr 10, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wood	51 min
Apr 10, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus	3 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.