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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 3, 1998Fannin County, Texas

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2565 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 1998-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 2, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin45 min
Oct 2, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack26 min
Oct 2, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker49 min
Oct 2, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin, Hunt46 min
Oct 2, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise42 min
Oct 2, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens64 min
Oct 2, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTarrant57 min
Oct 2, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin59 min
Oct 2, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker56 min
Oct 2, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant65 min
Oct 2, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens61 min
Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant3 hr
Oct 2, 9:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt3 hr
Oct 2, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker55 min
Oct 2, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Erath64 min
Oct 2, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto58 min
Oct 2, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt, Rains67 min
Oct 2, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Parker60 min
Oct 2, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson60 min
Oct 2, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell62 min
Oct 3, 4:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson4 hr
Oct 3, 7:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt4 hr
Oct 3, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens45 min
Oct 3, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens45 min

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.