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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 1996Nolan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1996, 4:10 PM CDT for Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Jun 2, 1996, 4:10 PM CDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Nolan County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 2074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABI 022112
FFWABI
TXC353-030115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
410 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN NOLAN COUNTY
 
AT 403 PM CDT THE NOLAN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED FLOODING IN THE
SOUTHERN PORTION OF NOLAN COUNTY. FLOOD WATERS WERE THREE FEET OVER THE
EAGLE CREEK BRIDGE ON FM 1170...BETWEEN MARYNEAL AND BLACKWELL.
 
ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY ACROSS NOLAN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING AND PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY NEAR MARYNEAL
AND BLACKWELL...SHOULD TAKE ALL PRECAUTIONS FOR RISING WATER.
 
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT. PERSONS IN OR
NEAR THE WARNING AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
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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, Jun 2, 11:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

TXZ091>095-098>107-113>123-127>135-139>148-154>162-174-175-030000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1150 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. A FEW CITIES INCLUDED IN THE RISK
AREA ARE ABILENE...BROWNWOOD...MINERAL WELLS...WACO...TEMPLE...
KILLEEN...SHERMAN...PARIS AND THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX.

A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINED IN PLACE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AT
MIDDAY. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT STRETCHED ACROSS THE REGION FROM
LONGVIEW TO HILLSBORO TO NEAR ABILENE.  MEANWHILE...A WEAK UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS MOVING INTO WEST TEXAS.  THE COMBINATION OF
THESE FEATURES WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER
WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD
MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR
POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:12 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
310 PM CDT SUN JUN 02 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0215 PM    5 E DING DONG             TX   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/02/96   BELL

0215 PM    5 E DING DONG             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/96   BELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	66 min
Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	37 min
Jun 2, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	58 min
Jun 2, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	67 min
Jun 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fisher, Mitchell, Nolan	61 min
Jun 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones, Taylor	55 min
Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	63 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.