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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 31, 1996Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 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 31, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wise County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 417 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1996-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 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
417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 2:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise3 hr
Aug 31, 2:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker2 hr
Aug 31, 3:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant3 hr
Aug 31, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque66 min
Aug 31, 4:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Somervell3 hr
Aug 31, 4:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Aug 31, 4:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Aug 31, 5:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Aug 31, 5:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 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.