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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1999, 2:00 AM CDT for Henderson 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 26, 1999, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1999, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Henderson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 25, 9:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
918 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM WILLS POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 VAN ZANDT DIME SIZE HAIL IN WILLS
POINT REPORTED BY POLICE
DEPARTMENT
0833 PM GUNSIGHT TX WIND DAMAGE
05/25/99 STEPHENS POWER LINES DOWN NORTHWEST
OF GUNSIGHT REPORTED BY
BRECKENRIDGE POLICE
0837 PM EMORY TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 RAINS DIME SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTH
OF EMORY REPORDED BY
POLICE DEPARTMENT
0900 PM STRAWN TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 PALO PINTO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN
STRAWN REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER
0908 PM STRAWN TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 PALO PINTO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER
IN STRAWNLocal storm report, May 25, 10:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1029 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1000 PM DALLAS TX 1.25 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 DALLAS HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTERS
1010 PM MURCHISON TX .88 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 HENDERSON NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN MURCHISON BY STORM
SPOTTERLocal storm report, May 25, 11:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1136 PM CDT TUE MAY 25 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM JACKSON TX FLOODING
05/25/99 VAN ZANDT COUNTY ROAD 1651 FLOODED
NEAR JACKSON
1040 PM ROCKWALL TX .75 INCH HAIL
05/25/99 ROCKWALL DIME HAIL REPORTED IN
ROCKWALL BY POLICE
DEPARTMENTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 55 min |
| May 25, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 42 min |
| May 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 53 min |
| May 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 51 min |
| May 25, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 39 min |
| May 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 52 min |
| May 25, 8:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 2 hr |
| May 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 39 min |
| May 25, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 66 min |
| May 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 59 min |
| May 25, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 41 min |
| May 25, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 53 min |
| May 25, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 42 min |
| May 25, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 64 min |
| May 25, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| May 26, 3:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 66 min |
| May 26, 3:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 67 min |
| May 26, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 2 hr |
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.