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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 4, 2000Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2000, 11:35 AM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 4, 2000, 11:35 AM CDT (16:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 041636
FFWFWD
TXC113-439-042030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1135 AM CDT SUN JUN 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 1135 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
  DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF TARRANT...AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
  DALLAS COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FROM FORT WORTH AND
  BENBROOK...TO ARLINGTON AND DESOTO THROUGH MUCH OF THE EARLY
  AFTERNOON HOURS. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL OCCUR ACROSS ALREADY
  SATURATED GROUND.

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.


LAT...LOoN 3294 9751 3264 9753 3258 9692 3264 9665
          3288 9681

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Jun 3, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker41 min
Jun 3, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker64 min
Jun 3, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant65 min
Jun 3, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker32 min
Jun 3, 10:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson65 min
Jun 3, 10:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
Jun 3, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 12:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson3 hr
Jun 4, 1:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
Jun 4, 1:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood2 hr
Jun 4, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 4, 3:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Hopkins, Hunt3 hr
Jun 4, 3:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
Jun 4, 3:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
Jun 4, 3:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood, Somervell3 hr
Jun 4, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 4, 4:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Jun 4, 6:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt3 hr
Jun 4, 6:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
Jun 4, 7:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson2 hr
Jun 4, 9:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins2 hr
Jun 4, 9:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 4, 10:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker3 hr
Jun 4, 10:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins4 hr
Jun 4, 11:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson4 hr
Jun 4, 1:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker3 hr
Jun 4, 5:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 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.