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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 15, 1997Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 15, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT for Comanche 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 15, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Comanche County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1947 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
1947 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 152230
FFWFTW
TXC093-160030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
530 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
   ...COMANCHE COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED HOURLY RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3
INCHES OVER MUCH OF COMANCHE COUNTY.  FLASH FLOODING HAS ALREADY BEEN
REPORTED...PARTICULARLY NEAR THE CITY OF COMANCHE.
 
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
ABANDONEJD QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 4:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens66 min
May 15, 9:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
May 15, 9:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
May 15, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche55 min
May 15, 4:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche60 min
May 15, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche60 min
May 15, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson58 min
May 15, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton67 min

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.