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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 15, 2000Rains County, Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2000, 9:32 AM CDT for Rains County, Van Zandt 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 15, 2000, 9:32 AM CDT (14:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Rains County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 151432
FFWFWD
TXC379-467-151730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
932 AM CDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS EXTENDED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RAINS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  VAN ZANDT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 932 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING FROM POINT AND EMORY...TO VAN...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE VAN...GRAND SALINE...POINT
  AND EMORY

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...LON 3274 9600 3261 9584 3244 9564 3293 9567
          3296 9586 3289 9594

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant3 hr
Jun 14, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins49 min
Jun 15, 12:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson4 hr
Jun 15, 1:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt4 hr
Jun 15, 3:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Somervell3 hr
Jun 15, 6:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque2 hr
Jun 15, 6:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton3 hr
Jun 15, 6:38 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt3 hr
Jun 15, 8:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt3 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.