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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 15, 1996Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 117 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 15, 1996, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1551 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson48 min
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman40 min
Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt50 min
Jun 15, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke68 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas59 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall68 min
Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson67 min
Jun 15, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins65 min
Jun 15, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin69 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro64 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt60 min

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.