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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 11, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT for Ellis County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ellis County, TX, Navarro County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 110515 FFWFTW TXC139-251-349-110715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1215 AM CDT SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ELLIS COUNTY...JOHNSON COUNTY...NAVARRO COUNTY AT 1210 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL TOTALS BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OVER JOHNSON...ELLIS...AND NORTHERN NAVARRO COUNTIES SINCE 900 PM. ADDTIONAL THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED FOR ANOTHER FEW HOURS...AND FLOODING OF CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS EXPECTED. 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, Jun 10, 6:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ091-092-098>101-115-116-129-130-141>143-110115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 617 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1995 ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS... AT 617 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHWESTERN TEXAS AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM NEAR WICHITA FALLS TO SWEETWATER. THESE STORMS EXTENDED WESTWARD INTO THE SOUTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING BETWEEN ALBANY AND BRECKENRIDGE. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH...AND WILL ENTER WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS WITHIN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 800 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 68 min |
| Jun 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Throckmorton, Young | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto, Young | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hamilton | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 10:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, McLennan | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 11:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 12:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 71 min |
| Jun 11, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 71 min |
| Jun 11, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 12:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee | 63 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.