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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 2, 1997Comanche County, Erath County, Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 3:31 AM CST for Comanche County, Erath County, Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Mar 2, 1997, 3:31 AM CST (09:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 1997, 7:30 AM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Comanche County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 1997-03-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 434 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.3

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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, Mar 1, 9:37 PM CST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
940 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

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

0805 PM@    HILLSBORO                 TX   DIME HAIL
03/01/97   HILL
Local storm report, Mar 1, 9:40 PM CST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
940 PM CST SAT MAR 1 1997

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

0805 PM    HILLSBORO                 TX   DIME HAIL
03/01/97   HILL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 7:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill48 min
Mar 1, 7:51 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDHill54 min
Mar 1, 10:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell69 min
Mar 1, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls60 min
Mar 1, 11:36 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDFalls, Limestone69 min
Mar 2, 12:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas58 min
Mar 2, 12:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton60 min
Mar 2, 1:48 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Mills57 min
Mar 2, 2:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas68 min
Mar 2, 3:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLampasas, Mills4 hr
Mar 2, 6:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
Mar 2, 7:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton, Lampasas, Mills3 hr
Mar 2, 7:29 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Eastland, Erath3 hr
Mar 2, 8:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt60 min
Mar 2, 8:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Rains69 min
Mar 2, 9:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Van Zandt60 min
Mar 2, 9:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills3 hr
Mar 2, 9:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland, Erath, Palo Pinto3 hr
Mar 2, 12:23 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Somervell6 hr
Mar 2, 12:23 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker6 hr
Mar 2, 12:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar47 min
Mar 2, 12:52 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Erath6 hr
Mar 2, 12:52 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto6 hr
Mar 2, 1:03 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDLamar57 min
Mar 2, 5:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque119 min

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.