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Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1997, 7:58 PM CST for Delta 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, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delta County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Feb 20, 3:30 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
330 PM CST THU FEB 20 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1257 PM ARLINGTON TX WIND DAMAGE
02/20/97 TARRANT 1500 BLOCK OF
CARLSBAD...NUMEROUS HOMES
WITH ROOF DAMAGE FROM
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. ONE
TREE UPROOTED AND ONE ROOF
LIFTED OFF A HOME.
0205 PM HAMILTON TX FLOODING
02/20/97 HAMILTON FLOODING ALONG LEON
CREEK...SHERIFFS HOME
FLOODED. LOW WATER
CROSSINGS IN CITY OF
HAMILTON ARE CLOSED.
0207 PM TX FLOODING
02/20/97 MILLS RESCUES IN PROGRESS ALONG
SWOLLEN CREEKS AND RIVERS.
0220 PM TX FLOODING
02/20/97 LAMPASAS 6 COUNTY ROADS STILL
CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
0220 PM TX FLOODING
02/20/97 BOSQUE SMALLER COUNTY ROADS HAVE
FLOODING PROBLEMS...BUT
MAIN ROADS ARE O.K.
0247 PM TX FLOODING
02/20/97 VAN ZANDT 3 ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
WATER.Special weather statement, Feb 20, 4:06 PM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ092>097-103>112-118>126-133>138-145>153-158>167-174-175-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 406 PM CST THU FEB 20 1997 ...PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH 50... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH TEXAS FROM TORNADO WATCH 50... FANNIN...FREESTONE...HUNT...KAUFMAN...LEON...NAVARRO TORNADO WATCH 50 REMAINS IN EFFECT ALONG AND EAST OF A PARIS... CANTON...PALESTINE LINE THROUGH 900 PM. 70
Special weather statement, Feb 20, 5:26 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ092>097-103>112-118>126-133>138-145>153-158>167-174-175-210030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 526 PM CST THU FEB 20 1997 ...PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS CLEARED FROM TORNADO WATCH 50... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH TEXAS FROM TORNADO WATCH 50... ANDERSON...DELTA...HENDERSON...HOPKINS...LAMAR...RAINS...VAN ZANDT TORNADO WATCH 50 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM ALONG AND EAST OF A CLARKSVILLE...QUITMAN...CROCKETT LINE. 70
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 6:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lamar | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath, Hood, Somervell | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 8:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lamar | 4 hr |
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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.