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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1995Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1995, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 664 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 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1177 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 310113
FFWFTW
TXC085-223-379-310315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
812 PM CDT TUE MAY 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...COLLIN COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...HOPKINS COUNTY...RAINS COUNTY
 
AT 812 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS JUST EAST OF PLANO...AND BETWEEN GREENVILLE...COOPER...
SULPHUR SPRINGS...AND LAKE TAWAKONI. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15
MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 700 PM AND 800 PM
NEAR LAKE LAVON...JUST WEST OF GREENVILLE...AND BETWEEN WOLFE CITY...
COMMERCE...AND COOPER. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY
WITH THESE STORMS. GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED
WITH THESE STORMS.
 
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.
 
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.

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

Special weather statement, May 30, 5:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 7:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hunt2 hr
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains2 hr
May 30, 9:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt3 hr
May 31, 1:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt2 hr
May 31, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens65 min
May 31, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto66 min
May 31, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath55 min
May 31, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood55 min
May 31, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker51 min
May 31, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant62 min
May 31, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell64 min
May 31, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Nolan64 min
May 31, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Johnson59 min
May 31, 3:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFisher, Nolan55 min
May 31, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher, Nolan55 min
May 31, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis52 min
May 31, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor2 hr
May 31, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill61 min
May 31, 4:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor55 min
May 31, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNolan67 min
May 31, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque49 min
May 31, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones59 min
May 31, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman50 min
May 31, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan61 min
May 31, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro56 min
May 31, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTaylor65 min
May 31, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson47 min
May 31, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman2 hr
May 31, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt47 min
May 31, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan27 min
May 31, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson50 min
May 31, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls54 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry55 min
May 31, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall55 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.