Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 129, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT for Grayson 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
- Jun 8, 1997, 11:25 PM CDT (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1997, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:27 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1501 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 090425 FFWFTW TXC181-090830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1125 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN GRAYSON COUNTY RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR INCHES HAVE FALLEN OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF GRAYSON COUNTY DURING THE PAST TWO HOURS. TRAVELLERS ALONG FM121 BETWEEN TIOGA AND GUNTER MAY EXPERIENCE WATER FLOWING OVER OR COVERING THE ROAD...ESPECIALLY IN LOW SPOTS. 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 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, Jun 8, 5:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ135-146>148-162-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 533 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 EARLY THIS EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN CANTON AND PALESTINE. THESE STORMS ARE THE RESULT OF THE COMBINATION OF DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER THE REGION...AFTERNON HEATING...AND THE ARRIVAL OF A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE TENDENCY TO DEVELOP AND DISSIPATE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SOME LOW HANGING CLOUDS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS DUE TO THE INTERACTION OF SEVERAL WEAK BOUNDARIES IN THE AREA. HOWEVER...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO TORNADIC CIRCULATION WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IS NOT FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THESE STORMS AND WILL ISSUE ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS IF CONDITIONS REQUIRE.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ135-146>148-162-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 533 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 1997 EARLY THIS EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN CANTON AND PALESTINE. THESE STORMS ARE THE RESULT OF THE COMBINATION OF DEEP TROPICAL MOISTURE OVER THE REGION...AFTERNON HEATING...AND THE ARRIVAL OF A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE TENDENCY TO DEVELOP AND DISSIPATE OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SOME LOW HANGING CLOUDS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS DUE TO THE INTERACTION OF SEVERAL WEAK BOUNDARIES IN THE AREA. HOWEVER...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES NO TORNADIC CIRCULATION WITH ANY OF THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION...THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IS NOT FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THESE STORMS AND WILL ISSUE ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS IF CONDITIONS REQ|UIRE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 55 min |
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.