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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 23, 1996, 11:05 PM CST for Denton County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. 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 23, 1996, 11:05 PM CST (05:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1996, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Denton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 779 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 240504 FFWFTW TXC121-439-240700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1105 PM CST SAT NOV 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...DENTON COUNTY...WESTERN TARRANT COUNTY AT 1100 PM... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING FROM BENBROOK TO HASLETT TO DENTON...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN... WITH MORE ON THE WAY. STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING ARE LIKELY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THLE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 23, 9:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 1:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 57 min |
| Nov 24, 1:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Wise | 2 hr |
| Nov 24, 1:06 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 2 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 61 min |
| Nov 24, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 66 min |
| Nov 24, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 65 min |
| Nov 24, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 65 min |
| Nov 24, 4:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 4:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 62 min |
| Nov 24, 4:28 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 4 hr |
| Nov 24, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Milam | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains | 3 hr |
| Nov 24, 5:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 3 hr |
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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.