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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 18, 1998, 6:00 AM CDT for Bell County, Falls County, Milam 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 1998, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 1998, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Milam County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 181100
FFWFTW
TXC001-027-145-161-289-293-331-395-181400-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 AM CDT SUN OCT 18 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR
FREESTONE COUNTY IN TEXAS
MILAM COUNTY IN TEXAS
LIMESTONE COUNTY IN TEXAS
FALLS COUNTY IN TEXAS
ANDERSON COUNTY IN TEXAS
ROBERTSON COUNTY IN TEXAS
BELL COUNTY IN TEXAS
LEON COUNTY IN TEXAS
INCLUDING TEMPLE...TEAGUE...MARLIN...GROESBECK...FAIRFIELD AND
CAMERON
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 550 AM... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED LIGHT TO MODERATE
RAIN CONTINUING OVER THE AREA SOUTH OF TEMPLE... GROESBECK... AND PALESTINE.
MANY CREEKS... STREAMS... AND LOW LYING AREAS REMAIN FLOODED... AND WHILE
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN AN INCH... FLOODING
WILL TAKE A WHILE TO SUBSIDE.
WATCH FOR RISING WXATER. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT VENTURE INTO FLOODED LOW
WATER AREAS. STAY AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING CREEKS AND STREAMS.
LAT...LON 3109 9744 3061 9716 3126 9572 3198 9565What 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 18, 4:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
434 AM CDT SUN OCT 18 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 RAINS NWS CO-OP OBSVR RPTD CNTY
ROADS FLOODED NEAR LAKE
TAWAKONI
0300 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 MCLENNAN S/O RPTD WATER OVER OLD
CRANFORD AND PLEASANT RUN
ROADS
0305 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 NAVARRO S/O RPTD ROAD FLOODING 5
MI S OF CORSICANA
0410 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 MCLENNAN S/O RPTD FM 185 NR
CRAWFORD CLOSED DUE TO HI
WATER AND NUMEROUS ROADS
IN CRAWFORD FLOODED
0507 PM BELTON TX FLOODING
10/17/98 BELL S/O RPTD RISING WATER
THREATENING SEVERAL HOMES
IN BELTON
0545 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 ROBERTSON S/O RPTD FM RD 1640
BETWEEN CALVERT & FRANKLIN
FLOODED
0555 PM COOPER TX FLOODING
10/17/98 DELTA S/O RPTD WATER COVERING
ROADS IN COOPER
1050 PM TX FLOODING
10/17/98 LIMESTONE S/O RPTD FLOODING OF LOW
AREAS ALG ST HWYS 14 & 164
1200 AM TX FLOODING
10/18/98 FREESTONE S/O RPTD ROAD FLOODED AT
MILE MARKER 193 ON I45.
0150 AM TX FLOODING
10/18/98 ANDERSON S/O RPTD INTER OF HWYS 287
& 294 ARE FLOODED BUT
PASSABLE
0329 AM CORSICANA TX FLOODING
10/18/98 NAVARRO S/O REPORTED COUNTY ROADS
5 MI S OF CORSICANA
FLOODED
0336 AM FLATS TX FLOODING
10/18/98 RAINS NWS CO-OP OBSVR RPTD
FLOODING OF CNTY ROADS
NEAR LAKE TAWAKONI AND 4
1/2 INCHES OF RAINFALL
0400 AM TX FLOODING
10/18/98 LIMESTONE S/O RPTD ROAD FLOODING ON
FM RDS 937 & 1246, AND
EVACUATION OF ONE FAMILY
DUE TO HIGH WATERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson | 111 min |
| Oct 17, 8:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 111 min |
| Oct 17, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, McLennan, Milam | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 6 hr |
| Oct 18, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Leon | 6 hr |
| Oct 18, 12:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson | 5 hr |
| Oct 18, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 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.