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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 9, 1997Parker County, Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 9, 1997, 5:14 PM CST for Parker County, Tarrant 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 9, 1997, 5:14 PM CST (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 1997, 8:15 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Parker County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 1997-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 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 12:00Z on 1997-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 092315
FFWFTW
TXC367-439-100215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
514 PM CST SUN MAR 9 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...PARKER COUNTY...TARRANT COUNTY
 
AT 514 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE
OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM DFW AIRPORT TO WEATHERFORD. THESE STORMS
WERE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AS THE LINE MOVES SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO
10 MPH.  SOME SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS.
 
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.

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.