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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 1998, 1:35 AM CDT for Freestone 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 1998, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1998, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Freestone County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 060650 COR
FFWFTW
TXC161-061100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 AM CDT TUE OCT 6 1998
...CORRECTED HIGHWAY NUMBER...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
FREESTONE COUNTY IN TEXAS
INCLUDING TEAGUE AND FAIRFIELD
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 135 AM CDT THE FREESTONE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
THAT HIGHWAY 84 NEAR TEAGUE WAS FLOODED. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3
INCHES WILL FALL ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 600 AM AND WILL RESULT
IN MORE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DONIE
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.
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 HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
LAT...LON 3204 9607 3181 9647 3142 9624 3160 9581What 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, 8:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 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, 5 hours 27 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, 10:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 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.