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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 17, 1999Ellis County, Kaufman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 17, 1999, 6:32 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kaufman 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: May 17, 1999, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1999, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellis County, TX, Kaufman County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Special weather statement, May 17, 5:43 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 5:43 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 17, 6:25 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 17, 6:28 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	43 min
May 17, 11:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	41 min
May 17, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	81 min
May 17, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	48 min
May 17, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	42 min
May 17, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	47 min
May 17, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	43 min
May 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	33 min
May 17, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	33 min
May 17, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	34 min
May 17, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	36 min
May 17, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	26 min
May 17, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	36 min
May 17, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	59 min
May 17, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	65 min
May 17, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	54 min
May 17, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	52 min
May 17, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	64 min
May 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt, Rockwall	3 hr
May 17, 3:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins	3 hr
May 17, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	61 min
May 17, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	64 min
May 17, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	62 min
May 17, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	56 min
May 17, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	67 min
May 17, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	62 min
May 17, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	61 min
May 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	3 hr
May 17, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	2 hr
May 17, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	64 min
May 17, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	2 hr
May 17, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	66 min
May 17, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	64 min
May 17, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	58 min
May 17, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	61 min
May 17, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	71 min
May 17, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains	71 min
May 17, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	68 min
May 17, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	63 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	52 min
May 17, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	3 hr
May 17, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	3 hr
May 17, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Rockwall	3 hr
May 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	71 min
May 17, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	71 min

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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.