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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 1995Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1995, 7:37 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 7:37 PM CDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 7 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 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1242 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
1242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.8
Supercell composite
9.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 060043
FFWFTW
TXC221-367-439-060345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
737 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...HOOD COUNTY...PARKER COUNTY...TARRANT COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH HAVE BEEN MOVING ACROSS THE AREA HAVE BEEN PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN AT THE RATE OF 2 INCHES AN HOUR. FLOODING OF ROADS AND
OTHER LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY.
 
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 FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTarrant69 min
May 5, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown69 min
May 5, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Parker3 hr
May 5, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills66 min
May 5, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas22 min
May 5, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis63 min
May 5, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill67 min
May 5, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton64 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis2 hr
May 5, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman57 min
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas32 min
May 5, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro59 min
May 5, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton46 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt60 min
May 5, 9:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan64 min
May 5, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Wood58 min
May 5, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith61 min
May 5, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell39 min
May 5, 10:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant3 hr
May 5, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, McLennan63 min
May 5, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCherokee56 min
May 5, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur56 min
May 6, 12:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Limestone, McLennan2 hr
May 6, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone34 min
May 6, 5:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall62 min
May 6, 6:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall56 min
May 6, 6:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland62 min
May 6, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor35 min
May 6, 7:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford35 min
May 6, 7:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell69 min
May 6, 7:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath31 min
May 6, 10:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague62 min
May 6, 11:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke66 min
May 6, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson43 min
May 6, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise53 min
May 6, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton50 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.