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Flash Flood Warning 106, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 9, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT for Denton County, Parker County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 9, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1997, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Denton County, TX, Parker County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 1444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 9, 12:36 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 57 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 61 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 61 min |
| May 8, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 59 min |
| May 8, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 50 min |
| May 8, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 64 min |
| May 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 66 min |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Somervell | 3 hr |
| May 9, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 4 hr |
| May 9, 2:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 3 hr |
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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.