Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 8, 1999, 10:09 AM CST for Hunt County, Kaufman County, Rockwall County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Mar 8, 1999, 10:09 AM CST (16:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1999, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Rockwall County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 627 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 864 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWD 081613
FFWFTW
TXC139-231-257-397-081815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1009 AM CST MON MAR 8 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ELLIS COUNTY IN TEXAS
HUNT COUNTY IN TEXAS
KAUFMAN COUNTY IN TEXAS
ROCKWALL COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 1215 PM CST
* AT 1001 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 1 TO 2 INCH PER HOUR RAINFALL RATES
FROM NEAR GREENVILLE TO ROCKWALL TO DALLAS TO WAXAHACHIE.
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.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3253 9708 3211 9687 3237 9644 3238 9613
x 3277 9611 3323 9586 3339 9594 3334 9628
3301 9626 3294 9652 3256 9650The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 6:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 6:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 7:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 8:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 9:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 39 min |
| Mar 8, 9:16 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 119 min |
| Mar 8, 9:16 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 119 min |
| Mar 8, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 10:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 11:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 40 min |
| Mar 8, 12:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 41 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999
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.