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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 19, 2002Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2002, 9:56 PM CST for Lamar 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 2002, 9:56 PM CST (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 20, 2002, 1:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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.

Did it verify

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 561 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 200356
FFWFTW
TXC277-200700-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAMAR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 100 AM CST.

* AT 953 PM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS 
NEAR PARIS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.  RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL 
CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND PRODUCE AN ADDITIONAL 
ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN.  THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING 
OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

LAT...LON 3383 9582 3385 9534 3351 9531 3350 9554
          3355 9574 3353 9584

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST, 7 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:25 PM CST, 7 hours 31 minutes before

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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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 19, 8:13 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
813 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    MULLIN                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/02   MILLS                          TREES DOWN AT MULLIN AND

                                          TIN ROOFS DESTROYED
0619 PM    LAMPASAS                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
03/19/02   LAMPASAS                       69 MPH WIND AT LAMPASAS
                                          HIGH SCHOOL

0655 PM    COPPERAS COVE                  LARGE HAIL
03/19/02   CORYELL                        QUARTER SIZED HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 6:02 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	3 hr
Mar 19, 6:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	46 min
Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	37 min
Mar 19, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	35 min
Mar 19, 6:32 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	4 hr
Mar 19, 6:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	61 min
Mar 19, 6:51 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell	4 hr
Mar 19, 6:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	50 min
Mar 19, 7:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	61 min
Mar 19, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	41 min
Mar 19, 7:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Fannin	3 hr
Mar 19, 7:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Mar 19, 8:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	49 min
Mar 19, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	66 min
Mar 19, 9:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	39 min
Mar 19, 10:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	37 min

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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.