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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 28, 1999Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 28, 1999, 9:56 PM CST for Hamilton 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 28, 1999, 9:56 PM CST (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jan 29, 1999, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 475 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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, Jan 28, 5:44 PM CST, 4 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
544 PM CST THU JAN 28 1999

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

0445 PM                              TX   FLOODING
01/28/99   FREESTONE                      LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS
                                          MANY SECONDARY ROADS
                                          FLOODED ACROSS THE COUNTY
                                          BETWEEN 430 AND 5 PM.

Local storm report, Jan 28, 7:07 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
707 PM CST THU JAN 28 1999

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

0640 PM    1 W PALESTINE             TX   FLOODING
01/28/99   ANDERSON                       SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTS A
                                          CAR WASHED OFF THE ROAD ON
                                          HWY 79

Local storm report, Jan 28, 9:13 PM CST, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
913 PM CST THU JAN 28 1999

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

0805 PM    8 N STEPHENVILLE          TX   1 INCH HAIL
01/28/99   ERATH                          SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 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, 4:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
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.