Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2002, 4:16 PM CST for Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 119 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, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2002, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Denton County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 192216
FFWFTW
TXC121-200015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
414 PM CST TUE MAR 19 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CST.
* AT 414 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN ALONG THE TARRANT-DENTON COUNTY LINE NEAR WESTLAKE. THIS
RAIN IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ARGYLE...COPPER CANYON...
CORINTH...DENTON...DOUBLE OAK...FLOWER MOUND...HEBRON...HICKORY
CREEK...HIGHLAND VILLAGE...LAKE DALLAS...LEWISVILLE AND LITTLE ELM
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 3315 9731 3299 9728 3301 9684 3327 9685
3325 9715The 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, 4:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 115 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 |
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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.