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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 1997, 5:54 PM CST for Bell 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
- Apr 4, 1997, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 368 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
- 714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 042354 FFWFTW TXC027-050300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 554 PM CST FRI APR 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BELL COUNTY AT 554 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM GATESVILLE TO AUSTIN. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 25 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OF UP TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE AS THIS LINE MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. SOILS IN THE WARNED AREA REMAIN VERY SATURATED WITH SOME FLOODING CONTINUING FROM THE HEAVIER RAINFALL OF EARLIER TODAY. THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN WORSENING FLOOD 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 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, Apr 4, 1:55 PM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
155 PM CST FRI APR 04 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0129 PM 3 S MINERAL WELLS TX WIND DAMAGE
04/04/97 PALO PINTO POWER LINES DOWNED
0145 PM EASTLAND TX 70 MPH TSTM GUST
04/04/97 EASTLAND
0145 PM EASTLAND TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/04/97 EASTLANDThe 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 | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 55 min |
| 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 |
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.