Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
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.
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:50 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 119 min |
| Mar 19, 5:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 46 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.