Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1998, 4:44 AM CST for Lampasas 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
- Mar 16, 1998, 4:44 AM CST (10:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1998, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lampasas County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:46 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 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 161045 FFWFTW TXC035-099-281-161500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 444 AM CST MON MAR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...BOSQUE COUNTY...CORYELL COUNTY...LAMPASAS COUNTY AT 444 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH NUMEROUS EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF NORTH TEXAS EAST OF A THROCKMORTON TO SAN SABA LINE AND WEST OF A BONHAM TO LUFKIN LINE. THE ENTIRE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ONLY SLOWLY MOVING EAST WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN OVERNIGHT OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES. FARM TO MARKET ROAD 932 NEAR PURMELA AND FARM TO MARKET ROAD 580 NEAR THE LAMPASAS/CORYELL COUNTY LINE WERE FLOODED. ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS LIKELY AS MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH SUNRISE. 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. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Mar 15, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Somervell | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:08 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 4:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 3 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.