Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 140, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 1997, 7:32 PM CDT for Comanche County, Mills 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 22, 1997, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1997, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Comanche County, TX, Mills County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 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 230034 FFWFTW TXC093-133-333-429-447-503-230430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 732 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...COMANCHE COUNTY...EASTLAND COUNTY...MILLS COUNTY ...STEPHENS COUNTY...THROCKMORTON COUNTY...YOUNG COUNTY AT 730 PM...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL ACROSS AREAS WHICH WERE ALREADY SATURATED. AS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUTO TRACK ACROSS THESE SAME AREAS THIS EVENING...AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE. ALSO...SOME AREAS IN BRECKENRIDGE HAVE REPORTED SOME URBAN FLOODING. 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. 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 STA$Y 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
Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
550 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 PM 2 SW DELEON TX TORNADO
06/22/97 COMANCHE TORNADO AND DAMAGE
REPORTED BY COMANCHE SD.
0140 PM 10 NE COMANCHE TX TORNADO
06/22/97 COMANCHE TRAILER ROOF
DAMAGED...TREES DOWNED...3
BARNS AND SEVERAL
OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED NEAR
VANDYKE (LSR PROGRAM DOES
NOT RECOGNIZE VANDYKE).
0145 PM OLDEN TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 EASTLAND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0145 PM 12 ESE EASTLAND TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 EASTLAND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0248 PM 5 ESE GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 HOOD POWER LINES DOWNED AND
BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
0250 PM 5 E GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 HOOD HOUSE AND 2 MOBILE HOMES
DAMAGED...SMALL
OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED...AND
A TRAVEL TRAILER
OVERTURNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0255 PM WEATHERFORD TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 PARKER 60 MPH WINDS REPORTED SE
OF WEATHERFORD. TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWNED BETWEEN
WILLOW PARK AND
WEATHERFORD.
0325 PM BRIDGEPORT TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 WISE ROOF DAMAGE TO BUSINESS
AND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0327 PM 6 W BRIDGEPORT TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 WISE BOAT OVERTURNED ON LAKE
BRIDGEPORT.
0335 PM DALLAS REDBIRD ARPT TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DALLAS
0340 PM ARLINGTON TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 TARRANT TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED AND SHEDS DAMAGED
NEAR BROOKVIEW AND INWOOD
IN CENTRAL ARLINGTON.
0347 PM ARLINGTON TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 TARRANT REPORTED AT I30 AND
BALLPARK WAY BY ARLINGTON
PD.
0347 PM ARLINGTON TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 TARRANT 58 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED
AT THE BALLPARK IN
ARLINGTON.
0350 PM IRVING TX 80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DALLAS 70 TO 80 MPH WIND GUSTS
REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE
JUST NORTH OF TEXAS
STADIUM.
0400 PM BOWIE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 MONTAGUE WINDOWS BLOWN OUT AT
BUSINESS BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0423 PM 6 NW LEWISVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 DENTON TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN
HIGHLAND VILLAGE.
0425 PM SULPHUR SPRINGS TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 RUSK REPORTED BY TEXAS DPS.
0435 PM HEARNE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 ROBERTSON POWER LINES AND LIMBS
DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0441 PM PLANO TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COLLIN FENCES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0500 PM 3 W COOPER TX 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DELTA 60 TO 65 MPH WIND GUSTS
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
ON COOPER LAKE.
0503 PM VALLEY VIEW TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COOKE LARGE LIMB DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0510 PM 8 S GAINESVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COOKE TREE LIMBS DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS AT MM
485 ON I35.
0516 PM WHITESBORO TX 75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 GRAYSON 70 TO 75 MPH WINDS
REPORTED.
0520 PM WOLFE CITY TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 HUNT 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS
REPORTED.Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
550 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0140 PM 2 SW DELEON TX TORNADO
06/22/97 COMANCHE TORNADO AND DAMAGE
REPORTED BY COMANCHE SD.
0140 PM 10 NE COMANCHE TX TORNADO
06/22/97 COMANCHE TRAILER ROOF
DAMAGED...TREES DOWNED...3
BARNS AND SEVERAL
OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED NEAR
VANDYKE (LSR PROGRAM DOES
NOT RECOGNIZE VANDYKE).
0145 PM OLDEN TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 EASTLAND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0145 PM 12 ESE EASTLAND TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 EASTLAND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0248 PM 5 ESE GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 HOOD POWER LINES DOWNED AND
BUILDINGS DAMAGED.
0250 PM 5 E GRANBURY TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 HOOD HOUSE AND 2 MOBILE HOMES
DAMAGED...SMALL
OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED...AND
A TRAVEL TRAILER
OVERTURNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0255 PM WEATHERFORD TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 PARKER 60 MPH WINDS REPORTED SE
OF WEATHERFORD. TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWNED BETWEEN
WILLOW PARK AND
WEATHERFORD.
0325 PM BRIDGEPORT TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 WISE ROOF DAMAGE TO BUSINESS
AND TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0327 PM 6 W BRIDGEPORT TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 WISE BOAT OVERTURNED ON LAKE
BRIDGEPORT.
0335 PM DALLAS REDBIRD ARPT TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DALLAS
0340 PM ARLINGTON TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 TARRANT TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED AND SHEDS DAMAGED
NEAR BROOKVIEW AND INWOOD
IN CENTRAL ARLINGTON.
0347 PM ARLINGTON TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 TARRANT REPORTED AT I30 AND
BALLPARK WAY BY ARLINGTON
PD.
0347 PM ARLINGTON TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 TARRANT 58 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED
AT THE BALLPARK IN
ARLINGTON.
0350 PM IRVING TX 80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DALLAS 70 TO 80 MPH WIND GUSTS
REPORTED BY NWS EMPLOYEE
JUST NORTH OF TEXAS
STADIUM.
0400 PM BOWIE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 MONTAGUE WINDOWS BLOWN OUT AT
BUSINESS BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0423 PM 6 NW LEWISVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 DENTON TREES DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN
HIGHLAND VILLAGE.
0425 PM SULPHUR SPRINGS TX 58 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 RUSK REPORTED BY TEXAS DPS.
0435 PM HEARNE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 ROBERTSON POWER LINES AND LIMBS
DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0441 PM PLANO TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COLLIN FENCES AND POWER LINES
DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM
WINDS.
0500 PM 3 W COOPER TX 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 DELTA 60 TO 65 MPH WIND GUSTS
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
ON COOPER LAKE.
0503 PM VALLEY VIEW TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COOKE LARGE LIMB DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
0510 PM 8 S GAINESVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
06/22/97 COOKE TREE LIMBS DOWNED BY
THUNDERSTORM WINDS AT MM
485 ON I35.
0516 PM WHITESBORO TX 75 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 GRAYSON 70 TO 75 MPH WINDS
h REPORTED.
0520 PM WOLFE CITY TX 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/97 HUNT 50 TO 60 MPH WINDS
REPORTED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens, Throckmorton, Young | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Mills | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens, Young | 5 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 7:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Stephens | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.