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Flash Flood Warning 147, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 23, 1997Comanche County, Eastland County, Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 1997, 4:15 AM CDT for Comanche County, Eastland County, Stephens 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: Jun 23, 1997, 4:15 AM CDT (09:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1997, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Comanche County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Stephens County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 230918
FFWFTW
TXC429-231200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
415 AM CDT MON JUN 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...STEPHENS COUNTY
 
AT 414 AM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS
PARTS OF STEPHENS COUNTY. MANY ROADS WILL REMAIN FLOODED AS CREEKS AND
STREAMS CONTINUE TO RISE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN THAT WAS FALLING IN AND
NEAR THE AREA.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

1 follow-up statement

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 230913 RRA
FFWFTW
TXC093-133-231200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
415 AM CDT MON JUN 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...COMANCHE COUNTY...EASTLAND COUNTY
 
AT 414 AM...RADAR SHOWED MOST OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS
COMANCHE AND EASTLAND COUNTIES. HOWEVER...SEVERAL ROADS REMAINED CLOSED
WITH CREEKS AND STREAMS REMAINING FULL. LOW LYING FLOODING WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH DAYBREAK.
 
MOST DEATHS IN FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY
TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.

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 22, 10:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-231800-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1038 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER
THE WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE SLIGHT RISK
AREA IS FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A
BONHAM TO KAUFMAN TO CENTERVILLE LINE.

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW WAS LOCATED NEAR HASKELL EARLY THIS MORNING.
STRONG SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW OF 30 TO 40 MPH CONTINUES ACROSS THE
CENTRAL AREAS.  SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORM WILL ONCE AGAIN
DEVELOP QUICK IN THE UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER NORTH TEXAS. THE RAPID
DEVELOPMENT OF THE STORMS WILL LEAD TO A QUICK SPINUP OF THE AIR
MOVING INTO THE STORMS AND THE FORMATION OF BRIEF FUNNEL CLOUDS OR
WEAK TORNADOES IS POSSIBLE.  IN ADDITION...A FORWARD STORM MOTION OF
30 TO 40 MPH CAN LEAD DAMAGING OUTFLOW WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE
WEATHER AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION BETWEEN 1 PM AND 4 PM.

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, 7:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche, Mills	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, 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

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1997 Every 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.