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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 6:50 AM CST for Palo Pinto 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 6:50 AM CST (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Palo Pinto County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 546 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 021250 FFWFTW TXC363-021600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 650 AM CST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...PALO PINTO COUNTY AT 650 AM...MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY. FROM 430 TO 630 AM...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 2 INCHES OR RAIN HAS FALLEN...WITH ADDITIONAL TOTALS OF BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES BY 10 AM LIKELY. WITH THE CURRENT GROUND SATURATION AND THIS MORNING RAINFALL...FLOODING OF ROADS...CREEKS...STREAMS...AND OTHER AREAS IS LIKELY. 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
Local storm report, Mar 2, 4:54 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
454 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HILLSBORO TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 HILL
1026 PM BELTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 BELL MOBILE HOME WAS
OVERTURNED, TREES UPROOTED
AND WINDOWS BLOWN OUT BY
TSTM WIND
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1120 PM LOTT TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 FALLS A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN
1135 PM MARLIN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 FALLS
1210 AM 10 E GOLDTHWAITE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS BARN WAS DAMAGED BY HIGH
WINDS
1230 AM 6 SW GROESBECK TX 1 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 LIMESTONE
0105 AM HAMILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 HAMILTON
0205 AM 6 NE SCALLORN TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS LARGE CEDAR TREES WERE
BROKEN OFF ABOVE THE
GROUND AND A BARN WAS
DAMAGEDLocal storm report, Mar 2, 4:55 AM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
454 AM CST SUN MAR 02 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM HILLSBORO TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 HILL
1026 PM BELTON TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 BELL MOBILE HOME WAS
OVERTURNED, TREES UPROOTED
AND WINDOWS BLOWN OUT BY
TSTM WIND
1030 PM 2 SE TEMPLE TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 BELL
1120 PM LOTT TX WIND DAMAGE
03/01/97 FALLS A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN
1135 PM MARLIN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
03/01/97 FALLS
1210 AM 10 E GOLDTHWAITE TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS BARN WAS DAMAGED BY HIGH
WINDS
1230 AM 6 SW GROESBECK TX 1 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 LIMESTONE
0105 AM HAMILTON TX .75 INCH HAIL
03/02/97 HAMILTON
0205 AM 6 NE SCALLORN TX WIND DAMAGE
03/02/97 MILLS LARGE CEDAR TREES WERE
BROKEN OFF ABOVE THE
~ GROUND AND A BARN WAS
DAMAGEDThe 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, 3:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 4 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.