Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

May 30, 1995, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)

Expired

May 30, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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TTAA00 KFTW 302323
FFWFTW
TXC097-181-277-310130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
622 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN COOKE COUNTY...GRAYSON COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...LAMAR COUNTY
 
AT 622 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED CLUSTERS OF
STRONG THUNDESTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. ONE
CLUSTER WAS LOCATED OVER COOKE COUNTY FROM NEAR DEXTER TO WOODBINE TO
LAKE RAY ROBERTS. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. ANOTHER CLUSTER
WAS LOCATED BETWEEN PILOT GROVE...BONHAM...PARIS...AND COOPER.  MOVEMENT
OF THIS CLUSTER WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN 1 1/2 AND 2 INCHES PER
HOUR.  FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN FANNIN COUNTY ALONG AND SOUTH OF US
HIGHWAY 82.  DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...FLOODING OF ROADAND LOW LYING AREAS WILL LIKELY OCCUR.
 
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COXVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
 
 
 
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In the hours before

TXZ093>096-104>109-111-302315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995

AT 520 PM...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED BETWEEN GAINESVILLE...ARDMORE
OKLAHOMA...PARIS AND SHERMAN.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT
15 MPH.  HOWEVER...CONTINUAL REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
THIS AREA HAS RESULTED RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN
1.5 AND 2 INCHES BETWEEN 420 AND 520 PM.

DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS...THE
NORTHERN SECTIONS OF COOKE...GRAYSON AND FANNIN COUNTIES CAN
EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN RESULTING OF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS
AND SOME ROADS AND FRExQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS WHILE DRIVING...AND
BOATERS ON AREA LAKES...ESPECIALLY LAKE TEXOMA...SHOULD HEAD FOR
SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1995Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.