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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 28, 1995Bell County, Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1995, 11:36 PM CDT for Bell County, Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1995, 11:36 PM CDT (04:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1995, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bell County, TX, Coryell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 4610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 290438
FFWFTW
TXC027-099-290745-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1136 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BELL COUNTY...CORYELL COUNTY
 
AT 1136 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CORYELL COUNTY FROM 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF GATESVILLE TO JUST NORTH OF KILLEEN. MOVEMENT OF THESE
STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH.
 
RADAR ESTIMATES OF BETWEEN 3 AND 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER
CENTRAL CORYELL COUNTY...INCLUDING FORT HOOD...SINCE 800 PM WEDNESDAY.
THE GROUND IS SATURATED FROM RAINS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY EVENINGS...AND
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...
AND LOW SPOTS.  IN ADDITION...COWHOUSE CREEK ABOVE LAKE BELTON WILL BE
AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOODING.
 
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 AREASz 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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
952 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0415 PM    5 N LAMPASAS              TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   LAMPASAS

0415 PM    5 N LAMPASAS              TX   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/28/95   LAMPASAS

0425 PM    5 W GRAFORD               TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   PALO PINTO

0430 PM    15 WNW BRECKENRIDGE       TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   STEPHENS                       REPORTED ON WEST END OF
                                          HUBBARD CREEK RESERVOIR.

0432 PM    5 W GRAFORD               TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   PALO PINTO

0437 PM    2 S GRAHAM                TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   YOUNG

0438 PM    NIX                       TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   LAMPASAS

0443 PM    8 W GRAFORD               TX   FUNNEL
06/28/95   PALO PINTO                     SPOTTER REPORTED.

0448 PM    POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE       TX   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/28/95   PALO PINTO                     REPORTED BY PALO PINTO EOC.

0450 PM    MURRAY                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   YOUNG

0510 PM    2 W GRAHAM                TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   YOUNG                          RELAYED THROUGH YOUNG RACES.

0605 PM    2 N GRAFORD               TX   FLASH FLOODING
06/28/95   PALO PINTO                     WATER COVERED FM 4 TO DEPTH
                                          OF 6 INCHES.

0752 PM    10 WSW MULLIN             TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/28/95   MILLS

0752 PM    10 WSW MULLIN             TX   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/28/95   MILLS

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 10:59 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

TXZ129-130-141>145-156>159-290445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1100 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF
NORTH TEXAS...

AT 1100 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF
RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY
LIGHTNING...WERE LOCATED FROM MORGAN THROUGH MERIDIAN IN BOSQUE
COUNTY...AND FROM GATESVILLE TO 5 MILES WEST OF KILLEEN.  MOVEMENT OF
THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM THURSDAY
SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO GROESBECK LINE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:00 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

TXZ129-130-141>145-156>159-290445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1100 PM CDT WED JUN 28 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF
NORTH TEXAS...

AT 1100 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF
RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GUSTY WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT DEADLY
LIGHTNING...WERE LOCATED FROM MORGAN THROUGH MERIDIAN IN BOSQUE
COUNTY...AND FROM GATESVILLE TO 5 MILES WEST OF KILLEEN.  MOVEMENT OF
THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM THURSDAY
SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO GROESBECK LINE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO
STATIONS...FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	65 min
Jun 28, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	64 min
Jun 28, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	64 min
Jun 28, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher, Stonewall	52 min
Jun 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	55 min
Jun 29, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	64 min
Jun 29, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	61 min
Jun 29, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	68 min
Jun 29, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	65 min

Nearby

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

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.