Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 19, 2002, 2:31 AM CST (08:31 UTC)

Expired

Mar 19, 2002, 7:30 AM CST

In force

5 hr

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palo Pinto 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.

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WGUS54 KFWD 190831
FFWFTW
TXC363-191330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PALO PINTO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 AM CST.

* AT 230 AM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS
  WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS...   
  THROUGH THE CITY OF PALO PINTO...SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF    
  EASTLAND. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. RADAR 
  ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 2 INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 1 AM AND
  230 AM.
 
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND 
STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND 
FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING 
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

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 3293 9856 3248 9856 3256 9809 3295 9805

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Mar 18, 2:45 PM CST, 11 hours 46 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
245 PM CST MON MAR 18 2002

NEW MODEL RUNS KEEP THE NORTHERN 1/2 OF AREA NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT
THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.  SINCE AREA SOUTH OF WARM FRONT IS CAPPED...
GREATEST CHANCE OF RAIN IS ALONG AND NORTH OF FRONT.  LOWERED MAX
TEMPERATURES NORTH OF WARM FRONT TUESDAY.  THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT
WILL BE MINIMAL...WITH THE MAIN THREAT A HEAVY RAIN EVENT ALONG AND
NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.  CURRENTLY
THERE IS A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
TRAINING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS.  THIS BAND WILL
INTENSIFY TONIGHT AS A LOW LEVEL JET SETS UP ACROSS THE REGION.  A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE ISSUED FOR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR THE
REGION NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT.  ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN CAN
BE EXPECTED ACROSS THIS AREA...WITH ISOLATED TOTALS OF FOUR TO FIVE
INCHES.

DFW 58/63/49/69 9970
ACT 63/72/51/70 6540

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND TUESDAY NORTH OF A LINE FROM
       COMANCHE TO GLEN ROSE...TO CLEBURNE...TO CANTON.

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

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