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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 17, 1999Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1999, 5:08 PM CDT for Dallas 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1999, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1999, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dallas County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 12:00Z on 1999-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1514 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 12:00Z on 1999-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 291 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
1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.7

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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, May 17, 3:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
301 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1999

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

1235 PM    IRVING                    TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   DALLAS                         DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC

1253 PM    CRANFILLS GAP             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   BOSQUE                         DIME HAIL ON EAST SIDE OF
                                          TOWN REPORTED BY P.D.

0147 PM    CLIFTON                   TX   .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   BOSQUE                         NICKEL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          CO-OP OBSERVER

0215 PM    COMMERCE                  TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   HUNT                           DIME HAIL REPORTED BY P.D.

0225 PM    SULPHUR SPRINGS           TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   HOPKINS                        DIME HAIL REPORTED BY P.D.

0238 PM    EMORY                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   RAINS                          GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFFS OFFICE

0242 PM    PALO PINTO                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   PALO PINTO                     DIME HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER

0257 PM    2 N MINERAL WELLS         TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   PALO PINTO                     GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS
Local storm report, May 17, 3:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
321 PM CDT MON MAY 17 1999

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

0302 PM    FORNEY                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
05/17/99   KAUFMAN                        HIGH PROFILE VEHICLE BLOWN
                                          OFF THE ROAD. REPORTED BY
                                          P.D.

0311 PM    BRIDGEPORT                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/99   WISE                           GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS.
Local storm report, May 17, 4:33 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 17, 4:33 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 17, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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Local storm report, May 17, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 11:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker43 min
May 17, 11:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant41 min
May 17, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise81 min
May 17, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant48 min
May 17, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson42 min
May 17, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas47 min
May 17, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque43 min
May 17, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin33 min
May 17, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque33 min
May 17, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt34 min
May 17, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas36 min
May 17, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins26 min
May 17, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto36 min
May 17, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker59 min
May 17, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall65 min
May 17, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise54 min
May 17, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland52 min
May 17, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath64 min
May 17, 3:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Hunt, Rockwall3 hr
May 17, 3:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr
May 17, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
May 17, 4:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin64 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath62 min
May 17, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant56 min
May 17, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins67 min
May 17, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche62 min
May 17, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson61 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise3 hr
May 17, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque64 min
May 17, 5:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman2 hr
May 17, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall66 min
May 17, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas64 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis58 min
May 17, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche61 min
May 17, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt71 min
May 17, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains71 min
May 17, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, McLennan68 min
May 17, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills63 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque52 min
May 17, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt3 hr
May 17, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Hill3 hr
May 17, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman3 hr
May 17, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRockwall3 hr
May 17, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro71 min
May 17, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone71 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.