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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 3, 1998, 4:54 AM CDT for Fannin 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
- Oct 3, 1998, 4:54 AM CDT (09:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 1998, 8:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fannin County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:57 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, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 26.4
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
Local storm report, Oct 3, 3:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
322 AM CDT SAT OCT 03 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 COLLIN ONE INCH HAIL RPTD BY
AMATUER RADIO OPERATOR.
0810 PM AZLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 TARRANT TREES BLOWN DOWN,SOME FELL
ON APARTMENT COMPLEX.
0810 PM AZLE TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 TARRANT QUARTER HAIL RPTD BY P.D.
0810 PM POOLVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 PARKER TREES LIMBS BLOWN DOWN IN
TOWN.
1010 PM GREENVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 HUNT TREE BLOWN DOWN 3 MILES
SOUTH OF GREENVILLE. TREE
COVERED ROAD.
1030 PM EMORY TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 RAINS TREES BLOWN DOWN NORTH OF
TOWN.
1040 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PALO PINTO SPOTTER RPTD DIME HAIL IN
GORDON.
1045 PM TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 HOPKINS TREES BLOWN DOWNt IN RURAL
SOUTHWEST HOPKINS COUNTY.Local storm report, Oct 3, 3:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
322 AM CDT SAT OCT 03 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 COLLIN ONE INCH HAIL RPTD BY
AMATUER RADIO OPERATOR.
0810 PM AZLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 TARRANT TREES BLOWN DOWN,SOME FELL
ON APARTMENT COMPLEX.
0810 PM AZLE TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 TARRANT QUARTER HAIL RPTD BY P.D.
0810 PM POOLVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 PARKER TREES LIMBS BLOWN DOWN IN
TOWN.
1010 PM GREENVILLE TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 HUNT TREE BLOWN DOWN 3 MILES
SOUTH OF GREENVILLE. TREE
COVERED ROAD.
1030 PM EMORY TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 RAINS TREES BLOWN DOWN NORTH OF
TOWN.
1040 PM TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/02/98 PALO PINTO SPOTTER RPTD DIME HAIL IN
GORDON.
1045 PM TX WIND DAMAGE
10/02/98 HOPKINS TREES BLOWN DOWNt IN RURAL
SOUTHWEST HOPKINS COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 45 min |
| Oct 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 26 min |
| Oct 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 49 min |
| Oct 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 46 min |
| Oct 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 42 min |
| Oct 2, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 57 min |
| Oct 2, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 59 min |
| Oct 2, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 56 min |
| Oct 2, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Oct 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 61 min |
| Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 3 hr |
| Oct 2, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 55 min |
| Oct 2, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 64 min |
| Oct 2, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 58 min |
| Oct 2, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 67 min |
| Oct 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 60 min |
| Oct 2, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 60 min |
| Oct 2, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 62 min |
| Oct 3, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 7:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 45 min |
| Oct 3, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 45 min |
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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.