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Flash Flood Warning 134, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 13, 1997Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT for Hunt 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 13, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1997, 1:45 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 1997-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4844 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 1997-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4844 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1304 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 140243
FFWFTW
TXC231-140645-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
   ...HUNT COUNTY
 
AT 945 PM...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL TOTALS UP TO 8 INCHES OVER
NORTHEASTERN HUNT COUNTY TODAY. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER
THE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...CAUSING ADDITIONAL FLOODING
PROBLEMS WEST AND SOUTH OVER THE REST OF THE COUNTY TONIGHT.
 
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.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREA<MS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt62 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt4 hr
Jun 13, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins2 hr
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt64 min
Jun 13, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHunt59 min
Jun 13, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt60 min
Jun 13, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHunt70 min
Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRains60 min
Jun 13, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt64 min
Jun 13, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton65 min
Jun 13, 10:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt4 hr
Jun 13, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant66 min
Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt62 min
Jun 13, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman61 min
Jun 14, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Jun 14, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson59 min
Jun 14, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson27 min
Jun 14, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson45 min
Jun 14, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon55 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.