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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 4, 1997Limestone County, Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1997, 2:35 AM CST for Limestone County, Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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: Apr 4, 1997, 2:35 AM CST (08:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 1997, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Limestone County, TX, Robertson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 296 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 2:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Robertson	55 min
Apr 4, 8:23 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, McLennan	4 hr
Apr 4, 8:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 4, 9:24 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Apr 4, 9:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	3 hr
Apr 4, 10:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	3 hr
Apr 4, 10:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	68 min
Apr 4, 11:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	2 hr
Apr 4, 11:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	65 min
Apr 4, 11:45 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	3 hr
Apr 4, 11:45 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Apr 4, 12:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	58 min
Apr 4, 12:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins	2 hr
Apr 4, 1:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	44 min
Apr 4, 1:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	2 hr
Apr 4, 1:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	59 min
Apr 4, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	48 min
Apr 4, 1:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker	43 min
Apr 4, 2:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	57 min
Apr 4, 3:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	57 min
Apr 4, 3:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Parker	2 hr
Apr 4, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	62 min
Apr 4, 3:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	67 min
Apr 4, 4:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	27 min
Apr 4, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	49 min
Apr 4, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	57 min
Apr 4, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Denton, Grayson	50 min
Apr 4, 5:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
Apr 4, 5:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	28 min
Apr 4, 5:54 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr

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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.