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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 23, 1996Denton County, Tarrant County, Texas

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.

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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, 5.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 779 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 23, 9:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas38 min
Nov 24, 1:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin57 min
Nov 24, 1:06 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Parker, Wise2 hr
Nov 24, 1:06 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson2 hr
Nov 24, 2:44 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant4 hr
Nov 24, 2:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell61 min
Nov 24, 3:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, McLennan66 min
Nov 24, 3:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls65 min
Nov 24, 3:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis65 min
Nov 24, 4:05 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Nov 24, 4:13 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Navarro62 min
Nov 24, 4:28 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
Nov 24, 5:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Limestone, Milam3 hr
Nov 24, 5:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt3 hr
Nov 24, 5:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains3 hr
Nov 24, 5:04 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.