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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 16, 1998, 9:03 AM CST for Lampasas 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
- Mar 16, 1998, 9:03 AM CST (15:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1998, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 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 15:05 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 12:00Z, 3.1 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
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Mar 16, 5:40 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-161800- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 AM CST MON MAR 16 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER MOST OF THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS TO MINERAL WELLS TO DECATUR TO MCKINNEY TO PARIS LINE. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX AREA AND THE CITIES OF DENTON...GREENVILLE... STEPHENVILLE... CORSICANA... ATHENS...WACO...TEMPLE...CAMERON... CENTERVILLE. A SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TO NEAR THE RED RIVER BY LATE AFTERNOON. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AS THE LOW MOVES NORTHWARD. A WEDGE OF DRY AIR WILL INTRUDE INTO THE SURFACE LOW ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF THE SURFACE LOW. FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR ACROSS THE RISK AREA WILL CAUSE SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING FROM LARGE HAIL...DOWNBURST WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...WIND SHEAR PROFILES DO SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED SUPERCELLS OR TORNADOES. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR THE SLIGHT RISK AREA AS WELL AS FOR OTHER LOCATIONS WEST OF A PARIS TO CENTERVILLE LINE. THE NORTHWARD MOVEMENT AND REPEAT PASSAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOILS SATURATED BY OVERNIGHT RAINS WILL CAUSE RAPID RUN OFF OF MODEST RAIN AMOUNTS WHICH CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT ONLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT ALSO HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT MIDDAY CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 5:40 AM CST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-161800- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 AM CST MON MAR 16 1998 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER MOST OF THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS EAST AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS TO MINERAL WELLS TO DECATUR TO MCKINNEY TO PARIS LINE. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX AREA AND THE CITIES OF DENTON...GREENVILLE... STEPHENVILLE... CORSICANA... ATHENS...WACO...TEMPLE...CAMERON... CENTERVILLE. A SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTH TEXAS EARLY THIS MORNING WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TO NEAR THE RED RIVER BY LATE AFTERNOON. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AS THE LOW MOVES NORTHWARD. A WEDGE OF DRY AIR WILL INTRUDE INTO THE SURFACE LOW ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF THE SURFACE LOW. FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR ACROSS THE RISK AREA WILL CAUSE SOME STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING FROM LARGE HAIL...DOWNBURST WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL. IN ADDITION...WIND SHEAR PROFILES DO SUGGEST THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ISOLATED SUPERCELLS OR TORNADOES. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A PROBLEM FOR THE SLIGHT RISK AREA AS WELL AS FOR OTHER LOCATIONS WEST OF A PARIS TO CENTERVILLE LINE. THE NORTHWARD MOVEMENT AND REPEAT PASSAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOILS SATURATED BY OVERNIGHT RAINS WILL CAUSE RAPID RUN OFF OF MODEST RAIN AMOUNTS WHICH CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS OF NORTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN INFORMED OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS TODAY AND BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF NOT ONLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...BUT ALSO HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT MIDDAY CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER EVENT.
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, 4:44 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 4 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:03 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1998Every 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.