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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1996Palo Pinto County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1996, 7:14 PM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
May 30, 1996, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Palo Pinto County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1996-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 638 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 1996-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
638 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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
May 30, 7:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland2 hr
May 30, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland2 hr
May 30, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath64 min
May 30, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche62 min
May 30, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton62 min
May 30, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, McLennan55 min
May 30, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman68 min
May 30, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell48 min
May 30, 11:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, McLennan3 hr
May 31, 12:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDColeman66 min
May 31, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman66 min
May 31, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown63 min
May 31, 12:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCallahan6 hr
May 31, 1:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrown, Coleman3 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.