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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 1996, 11:33 PM CDT for Bosque 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
- May 30, 1996, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1996, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bosque County, TX, McLennan County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 310434 FFWFTW TXC035-309-310730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1133 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN MCLENNAN COUNTY AT 1130 PM CDT...WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE 8 INCHES DEEP OVER HIGHWAY 217 WEST OF VALLEY MILLS ON HOG CREEK. RADAR INDICATES BETWEEN 3 AND 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN VALLEY MILLS AND MOSHEIN IN THE PAST 3 HOURS. RAINS CONTINUE TO FALL OVER THE AREA...AND ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS...MAKING RUN-OFF EXCESSIVE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHLER GROUND. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 2 hr |
| May 30, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 2 hr |
| May 30, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 64 min |
| May 30, 7:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 2 hr |
| May 30, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 30, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 62 min |
| May 30, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, McLennan | 55 min |
| May 30, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 68 min |
| May 30, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 48 min |
| May 31, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coleman | 66 min |
| May 31, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 66 min |
| May 31, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 63 min |
| May 31, 12:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Callahan | 6 hr |
| May 31, 1:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 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.