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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 5, 1998Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 1998, 6:40 PM CST for Mills 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
Jan 5, 1998, 6:40 PM CST (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 1998, 9:45 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Mills County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-01-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
512 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 060041
FFWFTW
TXC145-333-060345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
640 PM CST MON JAN 5 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

   ...FALLS COUNTY...MILLS COUNTY

AT 640 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS BOTH MILLS AND FALLS
COUNTY.

IN FALLS COUNTY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS
THROUGH 9PM. AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY ACROSS THE
COUNTY AND WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING

IN MILLS COUNTY...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS NEAR GOLDTHWAITE ARE PRODUCI
RAINFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING AND THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHENL IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 6:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone55 min
Jan 5, 6:21 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDMills54 min
Jan 5, 6:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls3 hr
Jan 5, 6:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan25 min
Jan 5, 6:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton61 min
Jan 5, 7:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill54 min
Jan 5, 7:13 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDHamilton17 min
Jan 5, 7:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Robertson41 min
Jan 5, 7:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone55 min
Jan 5, 7:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill45 min
Jan 5, 7:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills59 min
Jan 5, 7:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan26 min
Jan 5, 8:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson42 min
Jan 5, 8:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills36 min
Jan 5, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton65 min
Jan 5, 8:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque55 min
Jan 5, 8:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson52 min
Jan 5, 8:58 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone3 hr
Jan 5, 9:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant62 min
Jan 5, 9:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson69 min
Jan 5, 9:36 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman2 hr
Jan 5, 9:42 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls2 hr
Jan 5, 10:05 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson115 min
Jan 5, 10:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas65 min
Jan 5, 10:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson62 min
Jan 5, 10:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson38 min
Jan 5, 10:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro2 hr
Jan 5, 11:10 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Fannin3 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt4 hr
Jan 6, 12:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman63 min
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Hill, Kaufman5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Limestone, McLennan5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt5 hr
Jan 6, 9:15 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro3 hr
Jan 6, 9:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas65 min
Jan 6, 10:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam62 min
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls, Limestone, Milam7 hr
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Limestone, Navarro7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Falls7 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.