Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 122, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1997, 4:07 PM CDT for Falls 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 24, 1997, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Falls County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 242108 FFWFTW TXC145-250015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 407 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...FALLS COUNTY AT 407 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...BETWEEN MARLIN AND LOT. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 2 AND 4 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COV ERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 24, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-252315- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1140 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST AND NORTH OF A GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS TO COMANCHE LINE. MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE DRYLINE... LOCATED OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. WITH A WEAK WEST WIND...THESE STORMS SHOULD STEER TOWARDS NORTH TEXAS...ARRIVING IN THE RISK AREA LATE THIS EVENING. UNSTABLE AIR AND SUFFICIENT VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WILL BE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A FEW SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION SOMETIME THIS EtVENING.
Special weather statement, May 24, 11:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-252315- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1140 AM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY WEST AND NORTH OF A GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS TO COMANCHE LINE. MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE DRYLINE... LOCATED OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. WITH A WEAK WEST WIND...THESE STORMS SHOULD STEER TOWARDS NORTH TEXAS...ARRIVING IN THE RISK AREA LATE THIS EVENING. UNSTABLE AIR AND SUFFICIENT VERTICAL WIND SHEAR WILL BE PRESENT TO SUPPORT A FEW SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. STORM SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION SOMETIME THIS EVENING.
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.