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Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 19, 1997Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1997, 7:11 PM CDT for Collin 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 19, 1997, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1997-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2669 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 19, 7:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
May 19, 8:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton2 hr
May 19, 8:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman3 hr
May 19, 8:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains3 hr
May 19, 10:15 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.