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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
- 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
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 9594The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| 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 |
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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.