Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Feb 26, 2000, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)

Expired

Feb 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CST

In force

15 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ellis County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS54 KFWD 260738
FFWFWD
TXC139-261030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
130 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 430 AM

* AT 130 AM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED A BROAD AREA
  OF 1 1/2 TO 2 INCHES ACROSS ELLIS COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL TRACK OVER THESE SATURATED
  AREAS.  WITH ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES EXPECTED...FLASH FLOODING IS
  POSSIBLE.

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.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3228 9709 3209 9695 3233 9644 3256 9664

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Feb 25, 7:40 PM CST, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
740 PM CST FRI FEB 25 2000

COMBINATION OF DRY LINE AND MODIFIED OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS BACKED
NORTH-WESTWARD INTO THE DFW AREA.  WE WILL UPDATE AND ADD LOW
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE DFW AREA...AND ALSO TO THE
COUNTIES TO THE NEAR EAST...SOUTHEAST...AND SOUTH.  THE SHORT
RANGE RUC MODEL AGREES WITH OBSERVATIONS...AND HAS THE BOUNDARY
MOVING BACK THROUGH THE AREA...WITH A WEAK SURFACE LOW NW OF THE
METROPLEX AT 03Z.

WILL ALSO DROP THE WIND ADVISORY.

WE WILL UPDATE AGAIN TONIGHT WHEN WE HAVE HAD TIME TO DIGEST SOME
DATA AND TRENDS.

.FTW...NONE

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Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.