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Flash Flood Warning 112, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 7, 1996, 2:50 AM CST for Denton County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 2:50 AM CST (08:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 2359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Nov 6, 11:35 PM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ115>117-129-070545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1133 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED STEPHENS... PALO PINTO AND EASTLAND COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 1111. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM. H
Special weather statement, Nov 7, 1:42 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
TXZ102-117-130>132-141-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 142 AM CST THU NOV 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED WISE...PARKER ...HOOD...SOMERVELL..ERATH...AND EASTLAND COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 1111. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED IN THESE COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTH TEXAS SOUTH AND EAST OF THESE COUNTIES THROUGH 4 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 6:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 7:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 60 min |
| Nov 6, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 27 min |
| Nov 6, 8:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 49 min |
| Nov 6, 10:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 66 min |
| Nov 6, 10:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Nov 6, 10:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 57 min |
| Nov 6, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Nov 6, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 33 min |
| Nov 7, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, McLennan | 55 min |
| Nov 7, 12:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 55 min |
| Nov 7, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Limestone, Navarro | 52 min |
| Nov 7, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 52 min |
| Nov 7, 12:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin | 4 hr |
| Nov 7, 12:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 47 min |
| Nov 7, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Navarro | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 50 min |
| Nov 7, 2:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.