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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 29, 1999Delta County, Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 29, 1999, 4:50 AM CST for Delta County, Hunt 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 29, 1999, 4:50 AM CST (10:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 29, 1999, 7:45 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Delta County, TX, Hunt County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 1999-01-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 379 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 1999-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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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, Jan 28, 11:05 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 29, 2:40 AM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
240 AM CST FRI JAN 29 1999

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0900 PM    10 NW PALESTINE           TX   FLOODING
01/28/99   ANDERSON                       20 FT GAP WASHED OUT OF
                                          LAKE CREEK BRIDGE ON U.S.
                                          287 ACCORDING TO SHERIFF

0945 PM    WEATHERFORD               TX   1.5 INCH HAIL
01/28/99   PARKER                         REPORTED BY MEDIA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 28, 6:55 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson3 hr
Jan 28, 7:19 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDLeon3 hr
Jan 28, 8:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche40 min
Jan 28, 8:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath40 min
Jan 28, 9:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton35 min
Jan 28, 9:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath43 min
Jan 28, 9:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker43 min
Jan 28, 9:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Johnson53 min
Jan 28, 9:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton3 hr
Jan 28, 10:15 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath, Hood, Somervell3 hr
Jan 28, 10:15 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Jan 29, 4:25 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone3 hr
Jan 29, 6:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Freestone, Limestone, Navarro3 hr
Jan 29, 7:37 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Johnson, Tarrant3 hr
Jan 29, 12:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro35 min
Jan 29, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan46 min
Jan 29, 2:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan49 min
Jan 29, 2:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant28 min
Jan 29, 2:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise41 min
Jan 29, 2:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Navarro67 min
Jan 29, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton47 min
Jan 29, 3:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan36 min
Jan 29, 3:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman68 min
Jan 29, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas32 min
Jan 29, 4:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin36 min
Jan 29, 4:43 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro3 hr
Jan 29, 4:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson52 min
Jan 29, 5:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt57 min
Jan 29, 5:10 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson3 hr
Jan 29, 5:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone42 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.