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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 4, 1995Bosque County, Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1995, 12:20 AM CDT for Bosque County, Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 1995, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 1995, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bosque County, TX, Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 816 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 040522
FFWFTW
TXC035-193-040915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1220 AM CDT TUE APR 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BOSQUE COUNTY...HAMILTON COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAS OCCURRED BETWEEN HAMILTON
AND MERIDIAN SINCE 9 PM. THE HAMILTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT
INDICATED AT 1215 AM CDT...THAT HIGH WATER WAS OBSERVED OVER SEVERAL
LOW WATER CROSSINGS INCLUDING U.S. HIGHWAY 281 AND NUMEROUS STREETS
IN THE CITY OF HAMILTON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED
EARLY THIS MORNING AND WILL LIKELY BEGIN RUNNING OFF IN BOSQUE COUNTY BY
2 AM CDT.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLNASH 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.
 
 
 
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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
Apr 3, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	64 min
Apr 3, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	69 min
Apr 3, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	41 min
Apr 3, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	68 min
Apr 4, 12:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill	4 hr
Apr 4, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	65 min
Apr 4, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
Apr 4, 3:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	3 hr
Apr 4, 4:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill	3 hr
Apr 4, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	3 hr

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.