Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 1997, 3:28 PM CST for 4 counties in 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
- Feb 19, 1997, 3:28 PM CST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 192129 FFWFTW TXC221-251-367-425-439-200100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 328 PM CST WED FEB 19 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...HOOD COUNTY...JOHNSON COUNTY...PARKER COUNTY ...SOMERVELL COUNTY...TARRANT COUNTY HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER PORTIONS OF HOOD...JOHNSON...PARKER... SOMVERVELL AND TARRANT COUNTIES. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF NEAR 1 1/2 INCHES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED ACROSS PORTIONS OF THESE COUNTIES...AND AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL...WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS NEAR 3 INCHES...IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. DO NOT BECOME A FLASH FLOOD STATISTIC!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 1:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Rockwall | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hamilton | 2 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 2 hr |
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.