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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 23, 1996Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1996, 4:08 PM CDT for Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 23, 1996, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ellis County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1359 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
1359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.3

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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
Jul 23, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise65 min
Jul 23, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt51 min
Jul 23, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin43 min
Jul 23, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise66 min
Jul 23, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt66 min
Jul 23, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.