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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 1997, 9:01 AM CDT for Bell County, Falls 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 26, 1997, 9:01 AM CDT (14:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1997, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 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 261401 FFWFTW TXC027-145-261700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 901 AM CDT SAT APR 26 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BELL COUNTY...FALLS COUNTY BETWEEN TWO AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN KILLEEN AND MARLIN OVERNIGHT. ADDITIONAL RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA DURING THIS MORNING WITH ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE INCH POSSIBLE. MANY LOW WATER CROSSINGS ARE COVERED FROM THE OVERNIGHT RAINFALL. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NO T 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.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261700- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 600 AM CDT SAT APR 26 1997 RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. 76
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:01 AM CDT, 3 hours before
TXZ091>095-098>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261700- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 600 AM CDT SAT APR 26 1997 RAIN WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 29 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.