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Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 5, 1998Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 5, 1998, 11:40 PM CST for Van Zandt County, 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: Jan 5, 1998, 11:40 PM CST (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 6, 1998, 4:00 AM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 060543
FFWFTW
TXC139-145-161-217-257-293-309-349-001-213-467-061000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1140 PM CST MON JAN 5 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...ELLIS COUNTY...FALLS COUNTY...FREESTONE COUNTY...HILL COUNTY
   ...KAUFMAN COUNTY...LIMESTONE COUNTY...MCLENNAN COUNTY
   ...NAVARRO COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...ANDERSON COUNTY...HENDERSON COUNTY...VAN ZANDT COUNTY
 
AT 1140 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A BROAD BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...
ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE...FROM LAMPASAS TO WACO TO TYLER. THE BAND WAS
MOVING TO THE MORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  SINCE 6 PM THIS
EVENING...DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT FROM 2 TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAS
FALLEN OVER AN AREA SOUTH OF A WACO TO CORSICANA TO TYLER LINE.  AN
ADDITIONAL TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPEDCTED TONIGHT FROM THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AS A THEY MOVE NORTHWARD.   RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE FLOW INTO
AREAS TO THE SOUTH OF THE THUNDERSTORM BAND...FURTHER AGGRAVATING THE
FLASH FLOOD THREAT AFTER THE RAIN ENDS.
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN 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.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT.  IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS.  CAMPERS SH"OULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.

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, Jan 5, 7:17 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    CENTERVILLE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   LEON

0609 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS

0645 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   TORNADO
01/05/98   MILLS                          SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED 5
                                          MILES NE OF GOLDTHWAITE.

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:17 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 PM    CENTERVILLE               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   LEON

0609 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS

0645 PM    GOLDTHWAITE               TX   TORNADO
01/05/98   MILLS                          SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          HOUSE HEAVILY DAMAGED 5
                                          MILES NE OF GOLDTHWAITE.

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
735 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    CHINA SPRINGS             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MCLENNAN

0710 PM    PECAN WELLS               TX   FUNNEL CLOUD
01/05/98   HAMILTON

Local storm report, Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
735 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    CHINA SPRINGS             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MCLENNAN

0710 PM    PECAN WELLS               TX   FUNNEL CLOUD
01/05/98   HAMILTON

Local storm report, Jan 5, 9:50 PM CST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
950 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0705 PM    CHINA SPRING              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MCLENNAN                       DIME HAIL

0715 PM    HAMILTON                  TX   TORNADO
01/05/98   HAMILTON                       POSSIBLE TORNADO

0735 PM    WHITNEY                   TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   HILL                           DIME HAIL ON HWY 22

0801 PM    6 NW WHITNEY              TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   HILL

0832 PM    10 W MEXIA                TX   .88 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   LIMESTONE                      NICKEL HAIL

0851 PM    CLEBURNE                  TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   JOHNSON                        GOLFBALL HAIL

0908 PM    JOSHUA                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   JOHNSON                        GOLFBALL HAIL BROKE CAR
                                          WINDSHIELDS ON HWY 174

0918 PM    2 N BURLESON              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   TARRANT                        GOLFBALL HAIL ALONG I-35

0920 PM    CAYUGA                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   ANDERSON                       GOLFBALL HAIL

0932 PM    FORT WORTH                TX   .88 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   TARRANT                        NICKEL HAIL IN SOUTH FORT
                                          WORTH

0945 PM    EDGECLIFF VILLAGE         TX   .88 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   TARRANT                        NICKEL HAIL

Local storm report, Jan 5, 11:39 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1139 PM CST MON JAN 05 1998

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0812 PM    MULLIN                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS                          DIME HAIL 2-3 FEET DEEP

0830 PM    7 E FAIRFIELD             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   FREESTONE                      GOLFBALL HAIL

0840 PM    PRIDDY                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   MILLS                          DIME HAIL 2-3 FEET DEEP

0900 PM    8 S HICO                  TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   HAMILTON                        DIME HAIL

0940 PM    MIDLOTHIAN                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   ELLIS                          DIME HAIL

1000 PM                              TX   FLOODING
01/05/98   LIMESTONE                      NUMEROUS COUNTY ROADS
                                          FLOODED

1000 PM                              TX   FLOODING
01/05/98   FREESTONE                      NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS
                                          FLOODED

1020 PM    NEW YORK                  TX   .88 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   HENDERSON                      NICKEL HAIL IN NEW YORK
                                          AND LARUE AREA

1100 PM    CHANDLER                  TX   1.25 INCH HAIL
01/05/98   HENDERSON                      HALF-DOLLAR HAIL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	55 min
Jan 5, 6:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mills	54 min
Jan 5, 6:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mills	3 hr
Jan 5, 6:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	3 hr
Jan 5, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	25 min
Jan 5, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	61 min
Jan 5, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	54 min
Jan 5, 7:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hamilton	17 min
Jan 5, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Robertson	41 min
Jan 5, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	55 min
Jan 5, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	45 min
Jan 5, 7:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	59 min
Jan 5, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	26 min
Jan 5, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	42 min
Jan 5, 8:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	36 min
Jan 5, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	65 min
Jan 5, 8:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	55 min
Jan 5, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	52 min
Jan 5, 8:58 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Jan 5, 9:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	62 min
Jan 5, 9:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	69 min
Jan 5, 9:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	2 hr
Jan 5, 9:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	2 hr
Jan 5, 10:05 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	115 min
Jan 5, 10:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	65 min
Jan 5, 10:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	62 min
Jan 5, 10:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	38 min
Jan 5, 10:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	2 hr
Jan 5, 11:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin	3 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	4 hr
Jan 5, 11:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	4 hr
Jan 6, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	63 min
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Kaufman	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, McLennan	5 hr
Jan 6, 3:58 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	5 hr
Jan 6, 9:15 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	3 hr
Jan 6, 9:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	65 min
Jan 6, 10:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	62 min
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, Milam	7 hr
Jan 6, 11:11 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Limestone, Navarro	7 hr
Jan 6, 5:57 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	7 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998 Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.