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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 20, 1997Hamilton County, Lampasas County, Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1997, 6:32 PM CST for Hamilton County, Lampasas County, Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 5 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 20, 1997, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Feb 20, 1997, 11:30 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hamilton County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 1997-02-21Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1997-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -198 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1442 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 20, 6:27 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLamar4 hr
Feb 20, 6:32 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Erath, Hood, Somervell5 hr
Feb 20, 6:32 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker5 hr
Feb 20, 6:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell5 hr
Feb 20, 6:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton, Lampasas, Mills5 hr
Feb 20, 6:34 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque5 hr
Feb 20, 7:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Van Zandt5 hr
Feb 20, 7:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack4 hr
Feb 20, 7:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains5 hr
Feb 20, 7:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta5 hr
Feb 20, 7:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Rains5 hr
Feb 20, 7:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta5 hr
Feb 20, 8:48 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLamar4 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.