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Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 3:31 AM CST for Lampasas County, Mills 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 Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 020931 FFWFTW TXC093-143-193-281-333-021330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 331 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...COMANCHE COUNTY...ERATH COUNTY...HAMILTON COUNTY ...LAMPASAS COUNTY...MILLS COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH HAS FALLEN BETWEEN LAMPASAS AND STEPHENVILLE OVERNIGHT. OCCASIONAL RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL TOTALS ON NEARLY SATURATED GROUND CONDITIONS. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN THE FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS...LOW WATER CROSSING...AND SECONDARY ROADWAYS TOWARD DAYBREAK. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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 HILLLocal 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 HILLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 54 min |
| Mar 1, 10:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 69 min |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 11:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 12:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 58 min |
| Mar 2, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 1:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 2:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 68 min |
| Mar 2, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 8:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 69 min |
| Mar 2, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:58 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 57 min |
| Mar 2, 5:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.