Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 19, 2002, 6:02 PM CST (00:02 UTC)

Expired

Mar 19, 2002, 9:00 PM CST

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Denton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this flash flood warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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WGUS54 KFWD 200002
FFWFTW
TXC121-439-200300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  
* UNTIL 900 PM CST.

* AT 558 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AREAS OF   
  HEAVY RAIN TO THE WEST OF DENTON AND TARRANT COUNTIES.  THIS RAIN  
  WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA...AND CREATE MORE FLOODING PROBLEMS        
  THIS EVENING.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ARGYLE...ARLINGTON...       
  AUBREY...BARTONVILLE...BEDFORD...BLUE MOUND...                     
  COLLEYVILLE...CORINTH...DENTON AND DOUBLE OAK.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3297 9753 3258 9714 3332 9681 3345 9725

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
225 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

PART OF CWA THAT HAS BEEN UNDER THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS HAD 1-3
INCHES OF RAIN THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON...WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OF 5-6
INCHES IN SOME AREAS. A STRONG SHORT WAVE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT...BRINGING ADDITIONAL
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. AT 200 PM A STATIONARY FRONT
EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO...TO STEPHENVILLE...TO
WAXAHACHIE...TO NORTH OF TYLER.   THE MAIN HEAVY RAIN THREAT WILL BE
ALONG AND NORTH OF THE STATIONARY FRONT...SHIFTING EASTWARD LATER
TONIGHT. AN ADDITIONAL 2-4 INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY WITH ISOLATED
TOTALS OVER 5 INCHES. THE STORMS THAT ARE DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON
ARE MORE EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCERS THAN THE ONES THAT MOVED ACROSS
NORTH TEXAS YESTERDAY AND EARLIER TODAY.  SHOULD ANY TRAIN ECHO
PATTERN DEVELOP WITH THESE STORMS...MAJOR FLOODING COULD OCCUR. THE
FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE REISSUED FOR TONIGHT AND REDEFINED FURTHER
SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. DEPENDING ON THE EXTENT OF HEAVY RAIN LATER
TONIGHT...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE EXTENDED EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
IN ADDITION TO FLOODING...THERE IS A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. SOME
STORMS COULD PRODUCE DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL WITH A FEW WIND GUSTS
TO 50KT...GENERALLY SOUTH OF AN EASTLAND...TO WEATHERFORD...TO
DALLAS...TO EMORY LINE.

DFW 48/62/41/63 +400
ACT 52/63/45/65 7300

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM
       GOLDTHWAITE...TO MERIDIAN...TO ENNIS...TO CANTON.

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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
316 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

...FLASH FLOODING...
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH TEXAS NORTHWEST OF A
GOLDTHWAITE...MERIDIAN...ENNIS...CANTON LINE UNTIL 600 AM WEDNESDAY.
ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WATCH AREA LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PRODUCING ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TOTALS OF
TWO TO FOUR INCHES WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OVER FIVE INCHES.  THE WATCH
AREA HAS ALREADY HAD ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN SINCE MONDAY
MORNING...WITH ISOLATED RADAR ESTIMATED TOTALS OF FIVE TO SIX INCHES.
ANY PROLONGED HEAVY RAIN IN THE WATCH AREA WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF AND
PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REMAINDER OF THE
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
EASTLAND TO WEATHERFORD TO DALLAS...TO EMORY.  A FEW STORMS MAY
PRODUCE HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR.
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT.

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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.