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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 1995Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1995, 8:58 PM CDT for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 060159
FFWFTW
TXC113-139-060400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
858 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DALLAS COUNTY...ELLIS COUNTY
 
AT 858 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED WIDESPREAD
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT DALLAS AND ELLIS COUNTIES. MOVEMENT OF THESE
STORMS WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES
BETWEEN 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR...WHICH HAS RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD STREET
FLOODING. RADAR ESTIMATED 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 700 AND
900 PM.
 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS LIKELY BETWEEN 900 AND 1100
PM...WHICH WILL ONLY ADD TO THE FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 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, 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.