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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Somervell | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Mills | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 7:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 116 min |
| Aug 29, 11:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
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.