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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 29, 1999, 4:43 PM CST for Navarro 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, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 1999, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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
Special weather statement, Jan 29, 11:46 AM CST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 28, 6:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson | 3 hr |
| Jan 28, 7:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Leon | 3 hr |
| Jan 28, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 40 min |
| Jan 28, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 40 min |
| Jan 28, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Jan 28, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 43 min |
| Jan 28, 9:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 43 min |
| Jan 28, 9:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Johnson | 53 min |
| Jan 28, 9:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jan 28, 10:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Somervell | 3 hr |
| Jan 28, 10:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 4:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 4:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hunt | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 6:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls, Freestone, Limestone, Navarro | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 7:37 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Johnson, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 35 min |
| Jan 29, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 46 min |
| Jan 29, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 49 min |
| Jan 29, 2:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 28 min |
| Jan 29, 2:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 41 min |
| Jan 29, 2:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Navarro | 67 min |
| Jan 29, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 47 min |
| Jan 29, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 36 min |
| Jan 29, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 68 min |
| Jan 29, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 32 min |
| Jan 29, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 36 min |
| Jan 29, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 52 min |
| Jan 29, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 57 min |
| Jan 29, 5:10 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Jan 29, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 42 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.