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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 29, 1996Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT for Eastland 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 29, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1996, 5:45 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eastland County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1022 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 00:00Z on 1996-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 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 290747
FFWFTW
TXC133-291045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
244 AM CDT THU AUG 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTLAND COUNTY
 
AT 244 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THAT A
LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER EASTLAND COUNTY.
RADAR ESTIMATES THAT GENERALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVER
THE COUNTY WITH OVER 4 INCHES FROM PLEASANT HILL TO RISING STAR. RAIN
WILL BE ENDING FROM WEST TO EAST BETWEEN 400 AND 530 AM BUT RUNOFF FROM
THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 1:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Erath, Somervell3 hr
Aug 29, 3:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro6 hr
Aug 29, 3:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche3 hr
Aug 29, 6:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMills6 hr
Aug 29, 7:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche3 hr
Aug 29, 7:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson4 hr
Aug 29, 8:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCoryell, Lampasas, McLennan3 hr
Aug 29, 8:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone3 hr
Aug 29, 9:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro116 min
Aug 29, 11:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr

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.