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Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT for Kaufman 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 5, 1998, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1998, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kaufman County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 5, 4:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
449 PM CDT MON OCT 05 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0315 PM WEATHERFORD TX 1 INCH HAIL
10/05/98 PARKER QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTERS
0319 PM WEATHERFORD TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/05/98 PARKER DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
SPOTTERS.
0440 PM SUNSET TX .75 INCH HAIL
10/05/98 MONTAGUE DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
STORM SPOTTERLocal storm report, Oct 5, 8:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
808 PM CDT MON OCT 05 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM EDGECLIFF VILLAGE TX FLOODING
10/05/98 TARRANT HIGH WATER OVER CURBS
REPORTED BY S/O
0625 PM TERRELL TX FLOODING
10/05/98 KAUFMAN 2" RAINFALL PER HOUR AND
STREET FLOODING OVER CURBS
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTERS
0641 PM TERRELL TX FLOODING
10/05/98 KAUFMAN S/O REPORTED DITCHES IN
TERRELL AT CAPACITY
AND SPILLING OVER INTO
STREETS.
0650 PM CLEBURNE TX FLOODING
10/05/98 JOHNSON S/O REPORTED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS CLOSED DUE TO
WATER OVER BRIDGES.Local storm report, Oct 5, 8:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
808 PM CDT MON OCT 05 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0525 PM EDGECLIFF VILLAGE TX FLOODING
10/05/98 TARRANT HIGH WATER OVER CURBS
REPORTED BY S/O
0625 PM TERRELL TX FLOODING
10/05/98 KAUFMAN 2" RAINFALL PER HOUR AND
STREET FLOODING OVER CURBS
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTERS
0641 PM TERRELL TX FLOODING
10/05/98 KAUFMAN S/O REPORTED DITCHES IN
TERRELL AT CAPACITY
AND SPILLING OVER INTO
STREETS.
0650 PM CLEBURNE TX FLOODING
10/05/98 JOHNSON S/O REPORTED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS CLOSED DUE TO
WATER OVER BRIDGES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 5 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.