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Flash Flood Warning 102, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 28, 1996Denton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 28, 1996, 7:30 AM CST for Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 28, 1996, 7:30 AM CST (13:30 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1996, 12:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Denton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 12:00Z on 1996-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
348 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 8:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant4 hr
Oct 27, 8:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson5 hr
Oct 27, 10:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis4 hr
Oct 28, 5:46 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise4 hr
Oct 28, 6:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack3 hr
Oct 28, 7:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto5 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.