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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 29, 1996Coryell County, Lampasas County, McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 1996, 8:55 AM CDT for Coryell County, Lampasas County, McLennan 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, 8:55 AM CDT (13:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1996, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Coryell County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 371 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1726 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
1726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 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

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
Aug 29, 1:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Erath, Somervell3 hr
Aug 29, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland3 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 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.