Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Dec 16, 2001, 5:40 AM CST (11:40 UTC)

Expired

Dec 16, 2001, 10:00 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WGUS54 KFWD 161143
FFWFTW
TXC119-147-223-231-257-277-161600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
540 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FANNIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  HUNT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  KAUFMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  DELTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  LAMAR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 540 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE
  AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARIS TO MEXIA TO SHERMAN.
  DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT 2 TO 5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
  OVER MUCH OF THE AREA BETWEEN PARIS...WAXAHACHIE...AND ATHENS.
  AT 530 AM...THE PARIS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT HIGHWAY
  271 SOUTH AT PATTONVILLE CREEK WAS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
  SEVERAL COUNTY ROADS WERE ALSO FLOODED. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS 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.

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 3373 9634 3283 9629 3280 9651 3234 9646
          3239 9610 3283 9613 3302 9596 3302 9552
          3344 9530 3389 9537

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Dec 16, 4:00 AM CST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

WILL UPDATE ZONES AND RAISE RAIN CHANCES IN THE WEST.  WARM AIR
MOVING ACROSS WEAK COOL FRONT (THAT WAS NEAR A GAINESVILLE...
WEATHERFORD...JUNCTION LINE AT 1100 AM) HAS RESULTED IN WIDESPREAD
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA.  EASTERN ZONES...ESPECIALLY
THOSE IMMEDIATELY EAST OF THE DFW AREA...STILL APPEAR MOST PRONE TO
FURTHER FLOODING.  WILL ALSO ADJUST TEMPERATURES AND WINDS FOR
TODAY.

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY ALONG AND EAST OF A GAINESVILLE
      TO MERIDIAN...TO GATESVILLE LINE.

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
412 AM CST SUN DEC 16 2001

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY EAST OF A
GAINESVILLE...MERIDIAN...GATESVILLE LINE.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY SOUTHEAST OF AN
EMORY...HILLSBORO...GOLDTHWAITE LINE.

EARLY THIS MORNING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED NEAR JUNCTION.
A WARM FRONT EXTENDED EASTWARD FROM THE LOW TO NEAR LUFKIN.  A
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS LOCATED IN NORTHERN MEXICO ABOUT
200 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL PASO.

AS THE UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS TEXAS...THE SURFACE
LOW WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR TEXARKANA BY THIS EVENING.  ABUNDANT
MOISTURE IS ALREADY IN PLACE ACROSS TEXAS...AND THE GROUND IS SOAKED
FROM MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL.  ONGOING RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS.  HOWEVER...THE STORMS WILL BE MOST
INTENSE ALONG THE TRACK OF THE SURFACE LOW AND ALONG THE WARM FRONT.

SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG SURFACE WIND
GUSTS THE MAIN THREAT...ALONG WITH FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS.
AS THE SURFACE LOW AND ASSOCIATED UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE
NORTHEAST OUT OF TEXAS LATE THIS EVENING A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE
SOUTHEAST INTO THE REGION...ENDING THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH
FLOOD THREAT.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2001Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.