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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2000, 9:18 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant 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
- Jun 14, 2000, 9:18 PM CDT (02:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KFWD 150228 FFWFWD TXC113-439-150515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 918 PM CDT WED JUN 14 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 1215 AM CDT * AT 925 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER FORT WORTH AND WESTERN DALLAS COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ADDITIONAL RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FORT WORTH...DALLAS... ARLINGTON...GRAPEVINE...AND IRVING. 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 FLO`ODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. LAT...LON 3297 9755 3258 9754 3257 9653 3297 9653
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.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 14, 5:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 5:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 600 PM CDT WED JUNE 14 2000 ...AVIATION DISCUSSION... FORECAST WILL BE DIFFICULT NEXT FEW HOURS AS COLD FRONT BECOMES NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS METRO AREAS. WILL NEED TO CARRY SOME THUNDERSTORMS IN A TEMPO GROUP FOR AT LEAST 3 OR 4 HOURS RIGHT OFF THE BAT. CIGS AND WIND WILL VARY QUITE A BIT AS WELL FOR METRO AIRPORTS DUE...ONCE AGAIN...TO FRONT IN THE AREA. FEEL PRECIP WILL TAPER OFF A BIT BEFORE MIDNIGHT THEN LOW CLOUDS TO RETURN BEFORE SUNRISE. MESO ETA SHOWS A LOT OF INSTABILITY TOMORROW AFTERNOON SO WILL ALSO SHOW CB GROUP IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS. 80 ...PUBLIC FORECAST DISCUSSION... 230 PM CDT WED JUNE 14 2000 THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT ALONG COLD FRONT THAT SHOULD PUSH TO NEAR A TEMPLE-PALESTINE LINE BY MORNING. WE WILL PUT RELATIVELY HIGH POPS ALL AREAS TONIGHT EXCEPT FOR THE EXTREME NORTHWEST...WHERE THE FRONT SHOULD ALREADY HAVE PASSED AT FORECAST ISSUANCE TIME. WE WILL KEEP A CHANCE IN THE FORECAST FROM WACO TO CANTON AND POINTS SOUTH FOR TOMORROW...AS THE FRONT SLOWLY SLIDES SOUTHEAST AND WEAKENS. THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY LOOK PARTLY CLOUDY...WITH ONLY ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS. WEEKEND LOOKS MORE UNSETTLED AS ANOTHER FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. THESE SLOW MOVING SYSTEMS OFFER THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN WITH THE HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT. BEST CHANCES FOR TRAIN ECHOS WILL LIKELY BE AFTER DARK ALONG AND ABOUT 60 MILES BEHIND THE FRONT...AND MAINLY EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. WE WILL MENTION HEAVY RAIN EASTERN AND CENTRAL ZONES FOR TONIGHT. DFW 71/90/73/90 8211 ACT 72/90/74/90 6311 .FTW.0..NONE. 03
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-150100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 322 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000 A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT. THIS FEATURE WILL BE A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT... AS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ACT ON ABUNDANT MOISTURE ACROSS THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY APPROACH MARGINAL SEVERE LIMITS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS...TO ATHENS. HOWEVER...FORECAST INSTABILITY AND VERTICAL WIND PROFILES DO NOT SUPPORT WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. LIMITED STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THROUGH 8 PM NORTH OF A LAMPASAS TO ATHENS LINE. 83
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Somervell | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.