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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 13, 1995Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 13, 1995, 8:25 AM CST for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 1995, 8:25 AM CST (14:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1995, 10:30 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 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-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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -79 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 131425
FFWFTW
TXC085-113-139-181-131630-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
825 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS EXTENDED THE
FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...COLLIN COUNTY...DALLAS COUNTY...ELLIS COUNTY
   ...GRAYSON COUNTY
 
FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF ELLIS COUNTY. A BRIDGE ON FM 813 IS
ABOUT TO GO UNDER WATER. FLOODING CONTINUES ON HIGHWAY 287 IN
MIDLOTHIAN. SERVICE ROADS ON I-35 AND I-45 ARE STILL FLOODED.
 
IN DALLAS COUNTY 17 STREETS ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.  THERE HAS
BEEN A REPORT OF WATER IN A HOME IN SOUTHEAST DALLAS.
 
IN COLLIN COUNTY SOME SERVICE ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS ARE FLOODED.
 
IN GRAYSON COUNTY FM 313 AND FM 121 EAST OF VAN ALSTYNE ARE FLOODED.
 
 
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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, Mar 13, 4:00 AM CST, 4 hours 25 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
400 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR...MAR 13 1995

TIME CST     COUNTY        EVENT
0053 CST     MCLENNAN      WACO WEATHER OFFICE REPORTS THUNDERSTORM WINDS
                           GUSTING UP TO 38 MPH.

0300 CST     MCLENNAN      WACO P.D. GOT A CALL FROM THE PUBLIC OF A POSSIBLE
                           TORNADO NEAR THE CITY OF AXTELL.  UNCOMFIRMED AND
                           NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE.

Local storm report, Mar 13, 4:04 AM CST, 4 hours 21 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
400 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR...MAR 13 1995

TIME CST     COUNTY        EVENT
0053 CST     MCLENNAN      WACO WEATHER OFFICE REPORTS THUNDERSTORM WINDS
                           GUSTING UP TO 38 MPH.

0300 CST     MCLENNAN      WACO P.D. GOT A CALL FROM THE PUBLIC OF A POSSIBLE
                           TORNADO NEAR THE CITY OF AXTELL.  UNCOMFIRMED AND
                           NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE.

Local storm report, Mar 13, 8:20 AM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
820 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH AND MONDAY, MARCH 13TH

 TIME OF
  EVENT        COUNTY             EVENT
----------------------------------------------------
530 PM CST     HASKELL        QUARTER SIZE HAIL 4 MI S OF ROCHESTER

630 PM CST     HASKELL        ROOF BLOWN OFF A CAR PORT IN HASKELL
                              (STRAIGHT LINE WINDS)
MONDAY

115 AM CST     ELLIS          HWY 287 IN MIDLOTHIAN HAS 1 FT OF STANDING
                              WATER

405 AM CST     ELLIS         HWY 287 SE OF PALMER FLOODED...FLOODING IN
                             DOWNTOWN MAYPEARL

408 AM CST    GRAYSON         FLOODING REPORTED ACROSS WHOLE COUNTY

417 AM CST    DALLAS          HWY 380 CLOSED FOR 30 MINUTES DUE TO
                              FLOODING

627 AM CST    JOHNSON         FLOODING COUNTY RD 616 AND FARM RD 2738
                              AND 608

637 AM CST    ELLIS           FLOODING OF I-35 AND I-45...AND HWY 67
                              NEAR MAYPEARL

635 AM CST    ANDERSON        TREES BLOWN DOWN...BARN BLOWN DOWN IN
                              ELKHART...POSSIBLE TORNADO

Local storm report, Mar 13, 8:24 AM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
820 AM CST MON MAR 13 1995

...STORM REPORTS FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 12TH AND MONDAY, MARCH 13TH

 TIME OF
  EVENT        COUNTY             EVENT
----------------------------------------------------
530 PM CST     HASKELL        QUARTER SIZE HAIL 4 MI S OF ROCHESTER

630 PM CST     HASKELL        ROOF BLOWN OFF A CAR PORT IN HASKELL
                              (STRAIGHT LINE WINDS)
MONDAY

115 AM CST     ELLIS          HWY 287 IN MIDLOTHIAN HAS 1 FT OF STANDING
                              WATER

405 AM CST     ELLIS         HWY 287 SE OF PALMER FLOODED...FLOODING IN
                             DOWNTOWN MAYPEARL

408 AM CST    GRAYSON         FLOODING REPORTED ACROSS WHOLE COUNTY

417 AM CST    DALLAS          HWY 380 CLOSED FOR 30 MINUTES DUE TO
                              FLOODING

627 AM CST    JOHNSON         FLOODING COUNTY RD 616 AND FARM RD 2738
                              AND 608

637 AM CST    ELLIS           FLOODING OF I-35 AND I-45...AND HWY 67
                              NEAR MAYPEARL

635 AM CST    ANDERSON        TREES BLOWN DOWN...BARN BLOWN DOWN IN
                              ELKHART...POSSIBLE TORNADO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	58 min
Mar 12, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	60 min
Mar 12, 6:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	59 min
Mar 12, 7:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	57 min
Mar 12, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	54 min
Mar 13, 1:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	3 hr
Mar 13, 2:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	2 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	4 hr
Mar 13, 4:29 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	4 hr
Mar 13, 6:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 hr
Mar 13, 6:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	4 hr
Mar 13, 8:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	2 hr
Mar 13, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	69 min

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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.