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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 19, 2002Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2002, 4:05 PM CST for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. 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, 4:05 PM CST (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 2002, 6:00 PM CST
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 5 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -65 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 192205
FFWFTW
TXC439-200000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CST.

* AT 359 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER BENBROOK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ARLINGTON...BEDFORD...BLUE  
MOUND...COLLEYVILLE...CROWLEY...EAGLE MOUNTAIN...EDGECLIFF... 
EULESS...EVERMAN...FOREST HILL...FORT WORTH...AND NORTH RICHLAND 
HILLS.

AT 4 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER WESTERN TARRANT COUNTY.  THESE 
THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF THE COUNTY AND PRODUCE 
ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN ON PREVIOUSLY SATURATED GROUNDS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

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 3299 9754 3257 9754 3258 9704 3299 9706

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 7:02 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson4 hr
Mar 19, 2:31 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto5 hr
Mar 19, 7:50 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
Mar 19, 4:16 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton119 min
Mar 19, 5:11 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
Mar 19, 5:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills46 min

Nearby

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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.