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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 2000, 1:25 PM CDT for Leon 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Leon County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1226 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KFWD 191825
FFWFWD
TXC289-192030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
125 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 125 PM CDT...THE BULK OF THE HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST OF
CENTERVILLE IN COUNTY. HOWEVER...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS
REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS CONTINUED TO BE CLOSED DUE RUNOFF FROM THE
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER IN THE DAY. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL
HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING TO 330 PM. IN ADDITIONAL...
ANOTHER ROUND HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON :FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3137 9632 3101 9622 3112 9600 3114 9580
3136 9571 3160 9581The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 27 min |
| May 18, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 46 min |
| May 18, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 44 min |
| May 18, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 39 min |
| May 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Lamar | 3 hr |
| May 18, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 56 min |
| May 19, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 55 min |
| May 19, 4:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| May 19, 10:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 3 hr |
| May 19, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman | 3 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.