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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 2, 1997Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 5:16 PM CST for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. 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, 5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 1997, 7:15 PM CST
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bosque County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-02Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 022316
FFWFTW
TXC035-030115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
516 PM CST SUN MAR 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BOSQUE COUNTY
 
AT 510 PM THE BOSQUE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED NUMEROUS ROADS
STILL CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER. EVEN THOUGH THE RAIN HAS
STOPPED...RUNOFF WILL STILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY EVENING CAUSING
TRAVEL PROBLEMS.
 
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 CAUGHTn IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
 
&

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 WarningFWDComanche, Erath, Hamilton4 hr
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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.