Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 30, 2002, 2:42 AM CST (08:42 UTC)

Expired

Mar 30, 2002, 7:00 AM CST

In force

4 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, TX

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.

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 300842
FFWFTW
TXC113-301300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
242 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 AM CST.

* AT 242 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ARLINGTON...AND OVER CEDAR HILL.
  THESE STORMS WILL MERGE OVER DALLAS COUNTY...AND PRODUCE 
  VERY HEAVY RAIN.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF
SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AS WELL AS UNDERPASSES 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 3256 9703 3257 9654 3297 9653 3298 9701

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 29, 10:35 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR PUBLIC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1035 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

AVIATION DISCUSSION...
FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...TO JUST NORTH
OF KTKI...TO KAFW...TO KSEP...TO KBWD AS OF 23Z. THIS FRONT SEEMS TO
HAVE NEARLY STALLED...WITH THREE HOUR PRESSURE CHANGES TO THE NORTH
OF THE FRONT LOOKING ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT.
THE FRONT SHOULD SINK SLIGHTLY FARTHER SOUTH TONIGHT...AND MOVE
THROUGH FTW/DFW/DAL BEFORE STALLING OVERNIGHT.  SHOULD SEE CEILINGS
DECREASE...TO MVFR AROUND 09Z...AND TO IFR LEVELS 12-15Z. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER THE EDWARDS PLATEAU EAST INTO THE
BIG COUNTRY...WILL SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT...AND WE SHOULD SEE SOME
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS IN THE METROPLEX BEFORE 09Z.  58

UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT  SLOWER MOVEMENT OF FRONT.  RAISED MIN
TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND MAX TEMPERATURES SATURDAY.  59

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SATURDAY FOR ZONES
TXZ91>095...TXZ100>107...TXZ115>123...TXZ129>135...TXZ141...TXZ144>
146.

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.