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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 4, 1997Bell County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 714 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 174 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
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

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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   EASTLAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 4, 2:35 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone, Robertson55 min
Apr 4, 2:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, Robertson55 min
Apr 4, 8:23 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls, McLennan4 hr
Apr 4, 8:57 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Johnson, Tarrant3 hr
Apr 4, 9:24 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone3 hr
Apr 4, 9:57 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Navarro3 hr
Apr 4, 10:20 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall3 hr
Apr 4, 10:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell68 min
Apr 4, 11:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis2 hr
Apr 4, 11:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls65 min
Apr 4, 11:45 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls3 hr
Apr 4, 11:45 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone3 hr
Apr 4, 12:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone58 min
Apr 4, 12:22 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins2 hr
Apr 4, 1:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto44 min
Apr 4, 1:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt2 hr
Apr 4, 1:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker59 min
Apr 4, 1:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland48 min
Apr 4, 1:32 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDParker43 min
Apr 4, 2:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath57 min
Apr 4, 3:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker57 min
Apr 4, 3:10 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker2 hr
Apr 4, 3:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath62 min
Apr 4, 3:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood67 min
Apr 4, 4:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson27 min
Apr 4, 4:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton49 min
Apr 4, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant57 min
Apr 4, 4:40 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDDenton, Grayson50 min
Apr 4, 5:15 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant2 hr
Apr 4, 5:32 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDCoryell, Lampasas28 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.