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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 1996Haskell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1996, 8:06 PM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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: Jun 2, 1996, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Haskell County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:23 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Haskell	118 min
Jun 2, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	54 min
Jun 3, 4:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	59 min
Jun 3, 5:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Lampasas	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.