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Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 27, 1996Johnson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 27, 1996, 8:40 PM CST for Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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
Oct 27, 1996, 8:40 PM CST (02:40 UTC)
Expired
Oct 28, 1996, 1:45 AM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 51 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 1996-10-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1521 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 1996-10-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
1.9

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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
Oct 27, 8:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant4 hr
Oct 27, 10:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis4 hr
Oct 28, 5:46 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise4 hr
Oct 28, 6:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack3 hr
Oct 28, 7:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton5 hr
Oct 28, 7:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto5 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.