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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT for Cooke 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, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1997, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cooke County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 200317 FFWFTW TXC097-200615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1015 PM CDT MON MAY 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...COOKE COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT NEARLY 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST WEST OF GAINESVILLE. AT 1015 PM...RADAR SHOWED THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WICHTA FALLS EAST TO SHERMAN. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS COOKE COUNTY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THIS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING...FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST AT 10 MPH. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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
Special weather statement, May 19, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>121-123-129>134-141>145-156-157-159-200230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 850 PM CDT MON MAY 19 1997 THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. THUS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 306 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BOSQUE COLLIN COMANCHE COOKE CORYELL DALLAS DENTON EASTLAND ELLIS ERATH FANNIN GRAYSON HAMILTON HILL HOOD HUNT JACK JOHNSON KAUFMAN LAMPASAS MCLENNAN MILLS MONTAGUE PARKER ROCKWALL SOMERVELL STEPHENS TARRANT WISE YOUNG DELTA HOPKINS LAMAR RAINS PALO PINTO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO POSE A HEAVY RAIN THREAT THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT BUT THE THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HAS DIMINISHED. 69
Special weather statement, May 19, 8:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>121-123-129>134-141>145-156-157-159-200230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 850 PM CDT MON MAY 19 1997 THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. THUS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 306 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: BOSQUE COLLIN COMANCHE COOKE CORYELL DALLAS DENTON EASTLAND ELLIS ERATH FANNIN GRAYSON HAMILTON HILL HOOD HUNT JACK JOHNSON KAUFMAN LAMPASAS MCLENNAN MILLS MONTAGUE PARKER ROCKWALL SOMERVELL STEPHENS TARRANT WISE YOUNG DELTA HOPKINS LAMAR RAINS PALO PINTO : SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO POSE A HEAVY RAIN THREAT THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT BUT THE THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HAS DIMINISHED. 69
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 3 hr |
| May 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| May 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 2 hr |
| May 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman | 3 hr |
| May 19, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 3 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.