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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 15, 1996Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 1996, 3:32 AM CDT for Young 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
Sep 15, 1996, 3:32 AM CDT (08:32 UTC)
Expired
Sep 15, 1996, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Young County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1996-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 765 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 1996-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.8

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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
Sep 14, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland4 hr
Sep 14, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche60 min
Sep 15, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood25 min
Sep 15, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Eastland, Erath5 hr
Sep 15, 2:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens4 hr
Sep 15, 7:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens3 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.