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Flash Flood Warning 164, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 23, 1997Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 1997, 10:36 AM CDT for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
Oct 23, 1997, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
Expired
Oct 23, 1997, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 12:00Z on 1997-10-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-10-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 219 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 231539
FFWFTW
TXC113-139-231745-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1036 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...DALLAS COUNTY...ELLIS COUNTY
 
AT 1035...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES UP TO
2 INCHES PER HOUR WAS LOCATED FROM COPPELL TO ARLINGTON TO CLEBURNE.
MOVEMENT OF THE LINE IS EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED THROUGHOUT SECTIONS OF TARRANT
COUNTY...WITH A REPORT OF STRANDED AUTOMOBILES IN FORT WORTH.
 
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE YOU CAN NOT SEE THE ROADWAY DUE TO
STANDING WATER AS THE DEPTH OF THE WATER IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.
 
 
 
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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, Oct 23, 6:00 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
TXZ095-102>107-117>123-130>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-231800-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A
TEMPLE...TO GROESBECK...TO CENTERVILLE LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES
OF CAMERON...FRANKLIN AND CENTERVILLE.

TO THE NORTH OF THE MODERATE RISK AREA...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY TO THE SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE...TO
WEATHERFORD TO PARIS LINE. SOME CITIES IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA
INCLUDE WACO...TEMPLE...CORSICANA...PALESTINE AND THE DALLAS/FORT
WORTH METROPLEX.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT OF NEW MEXICO THIS
MORNING INTO NORTH TEXAS BY THIS AFTERNOON. OUT AHEAD OF THIS
DISTURBANCE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL PULL GULF MOISTURE NORTHWARD
ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA AS A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES NORTHWARD.
AS A RESULT WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN THE MOIST AND
UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS.

THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA
WHERE STRONG VERTICAL WIND SHEAR PROFILES WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHERE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND
TORNADOES WILL ALL BE POSSIBLE.

FARTHER TO THE NORTH ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA THE VERTICAL WIND
PROFILE WILL NOT BE AS FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES.
HOWEVER LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN A FEW OF
THE STORMS.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH WILL MONITOR THIS
SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR IMPORTANT CHANGES IN WIND SHEAR OR
INSTABILITY.

EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS WEST OF A DALLAS TO
CAMERON LINE MAY SEE LIMITED ACTIVATION BY LATE MORNING. WHILE TO THE
EAST OF THAT LINE SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY NOT BE REQUIRED UNTIL
AFTERNOON.

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Local storm report, Oct 23, 9:52 AM CDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
952 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 AM    TEMPLE                    TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   BELL                           QUARTER HAIL. SPOTTER
                                          REPORT THRU KCEN-TV IN
                                          TEMPLE
Local storm report, Oct 23, 9:54 AM CDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
952 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0930 AM    TEMPLE                    TX   1 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   BELL                           QUARTER HAIL. SPOTTER
                                          REPORT THRU KCEN-TV IN
                                          TEMPLE
Local storm report, Oct 23, 10:29 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1029 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1015 AM    CHILTON                   TX   .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   FALLS                          DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

1025 AM    FORT WORTH                TX   FLOODING
10/23/97   TARRANT                        FLOODING BEGINNING TO
                                          OCCUR IN THE 500 BLOCK OF
                                          NORTHWEST 28TH STREET

1027 AM    EULESS                    TX   FLOODING
10/23/97   TARRANT                        FLOODING BEGINNING IN
                                          STREETS
Local storm report, Oct 23, 10:30 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1029 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1015 AM    CHILTON                   TX   .75 INCH HAIL
10/23/97   FALLS                          DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

1025 AM    FORT WORTH                TX   FLOODING
10/23/97   TARRANT                        FLOODING BEGINNING TO
                                          OCCUR IN THE 500 BLOCK OF
                                          NORTHWEST 28TH STREET

1027 AM    EULESS                    TX   FLOODING
10/23/97   TARRANT                        FLOODING BEGINNING IN
                                          STREETS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 23, 9:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell57 min
Oct 23, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls60 min
Oct 23, 10:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant98 min
Oct 23, 10:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone66 min
Oct 23, 11:42 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill2 hr
Oct 23, 12:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton119 min
Oct 23, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque46 min
Oct 23, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBosque54 min
Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill45 min
Oct 23, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis57 min
Oct 23, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill61 min
Oct 23, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman60 min
Oct 23, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack59 min
Oct 23, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro67 min
Oct 23, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague, Wise64 min
Oct 23, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill60 min
Oct 23, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro116 min
Oct 23, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque116 min
Oct 23, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise39 min
Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson33 min
Oct 23, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson26 min
Oct 23, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton67 min
Oct 23, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro53 min
Oct 23, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro84 min
Oct 23, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone62 min
Oct 23, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro29 min

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.