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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 25, 2000Hood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 25, 2000, 8:04 PM CST for Hood 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 2000, 8:04 PM CST (02:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hood County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 887 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 260208
FFWFWD
TXC221-260500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
804 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST

* AT 804 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED
  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ERATH COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
  EAST ACROSS "HOOD COUNTY AND PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN.
  THIS WILL RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING...FLOOD PRONE AREAS.

LAT...LON 3253 9806 3226 9793 3232 9779 3235 9762
          3257 9769

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 6:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood58 min
Mar 25, 6:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson63 min
Mar 25, 7:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto55 min
Mar 25, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath53 min
Mar 25, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson48 min
Mar 25, 8:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood65 min
Mar 25, 8:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis61 min
Mar 25, 8:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell45 min
Mar 25, 8:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson47 min
Mar 25, 9:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson55 min
Mar 25, 9:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill64 min
Mar 25, 9:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro62 min
Mar 25, 10:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone66 min
Mar 25, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung45 min
Mar 25, 10:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack56 min
Mar 25, 11:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto56 min
Mar 26, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant43 min
Mar 26, 12:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker67 min
Mar 26, 1:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant65 min
Mar 26, 2:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro60 min
Mar 26, 2:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill, Johnson61 min
Mar 26, 2:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood53 min
Mar 26, 2:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell49 min
Mar 26, 3:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Navarro60 min
Mar 26, 3:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone46 min
Mar 26, 3:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon48 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell47 min

Nearby

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

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.