Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 12, 1997, 3:10 PM CST for Ellis 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
- Feb 12, 1997, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 1997, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 122112 FFWFTW TXC139-130015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 310 PM CST WED FEB 12 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...ELLIS COUNTY AT 300 PM CST HEAVY RAIN WAS CAUSING ROADS TO BEGIN FLOODING IN PARTS OF ELLIS COUNTY. NEAR MAYPEARL...FM ROAD 66 WAS FLOODED... AND SOME COUNTY ROADS IN THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY WERE CLOSE TO FLOODING. RADAR INDICATES MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING OVER ELLIS COUNTY...WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1-2 INCHES POSSIBLE BY NIGHTFALL. 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, Feb 12, 10:40 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ098>101-113>116-127>129-122300- SNOW ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1040 AM CST WED FEB 12 1997 ...THE SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS... TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN TOO WARM FOR THE RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. BY THE TIME TEMPERATURES ALOFT COOL ENOUGH TO CHANGE THIS EVENING...PRECIPITATION WILL BE ENDING...AND NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION WILL OCCUR. ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL MOVE INTO WEST TEXAS ON THURSDAY... BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SLEET AND SNOW TO THE AREA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Feb 12, 10:43 AM CST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
TXZ098>101-113>116-127>129-122300- SNOW ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1040 AM CST WED FEB 12 1997 ...THE SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS... TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN TOO WARM FOR THE RAIN TO CHANGE OVER TO SNOW THIS AFTERNOON. BY THE TIME TEMPERATURES ALOFT COOL ENOUGH TO CHANGE THIS EVENING...PRECIPITATION WILL BE ENDING...AND NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION WILL OCCUR. ANOTHER UPPER L EVEL STORM WILL MOVE INTO WEST TEXAS ON THURSDAY... BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SLEET AND SNOW TO THE AREA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
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.