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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 16, 1996Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 1996, 8:58 AM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
Aug 16, 1996, 8:58 AM CDT (13:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 1996-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 919 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 1996-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
919 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 161358
FFWFTW
TXC143-161700-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
858 AM CDT FRI AUG 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...ERATH COUNTY
 
AT 855 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
CONTINUING OVER ERATH COUNTY AND THESE STORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE
MOVEMENT. RADAR INDICATES THAT NEAR 6 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN SOME
LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTHERN ERATH COUNTY WITH A REPORT OF 5.5 INCHES FROM
MORGAN MILL. FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED.
 
&
 
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. D TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
 
&

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.