Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Sep 12, 2000, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)

Expired

Sep 12, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Van Zandt County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS54 KFWD 122027
FFWFWD
TXC467-122330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
324 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT.

* AT 324 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 3 TO 4
INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN CANTON AND WILL POINT...WITH HEAVY
RAIN CONTINUING IN THE SAME AREA.

EVEN THROUGH IT HAS BEEN DRY THE GROUND SURFACE HAS BECOME HARD AND
COMPACTED...MAKING IT HARD FOR HEAVY RAIN TO SOAK INTO THE GROUND.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

LAT...LON 3279 9604 3238 9604 3237 9567 3274 9576

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Sep 12, 3:18 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
318 PM CDT TUE SEP 12 2000

...MAJOR RAINFALL EVENT MISSES THE BUCKET...DFW OFFICIAL SITE
 REMAINS DRY...

QUITE BUSY TODAY WITH SEVERE STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL.  THIS
EVENT WILL TRANSLATE SOUTHWARD TONIGHT AND BOIL UP AGAIN WEDNESDAY
IN THE SOUTHERN AREAS.  OKLAHOMA FRONT WILL BE HARD PRESS TO PUSH
SOUTH OF RED RIVER.  HOWEVER...A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH IS
POSITIONED ACROSS THE CWA WITH WINDS BECOMING EASTERLY WITH TIME.
HIGH CAPE VALUES AND PWS OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS LEADS TO POTENTIAL OF
ADDITIONAL DAMAGING OUTFLOW WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH
TONIGHT.  ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY ON SOUTH SIDE OF
SURFACE...BUT NOT AS INTENSE AS TODAY.  LINGERING AFTERNOON
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED SOUTHERN HALF THURSDAY.

SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES NORTHERN AREAS DUE TO UPSLOPE WINDS AND
DRIER AIR.  LITTLE CHANGE DOWN SOUTH.  INCREASED POPS AHEAD OF
SYSTEM.

EXTENDED...ANOTHER FRONT ON EXPECTED SUNDAY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF.   OTHERWISE NEAR SEASONAL TEMPERATURES
EXPECTED.  75

DFW   71/90/68/92  1100     ACT  71/88/67/94  6423

.FTW...NWONE.

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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.