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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 18, 2000Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT for Bell 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 18, 2000, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1462 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
1462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
694 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 190137
FFWFWD
TXC027-190430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
833 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 833 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  THAT WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SALADO. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER
  MOST OF BELL COUNTY WITH THE STORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS THE COUNTY
  BETWEEN 630 PM AND 830 PM.  ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN
  FLASH FLOODING.

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 3093 9785 3082 9736 3101 9716 3131 974&2
          3106 9791

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.