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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 7, 2004Jack County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 7, 2004, 12:25 AM CDT for Jack County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2004, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2004, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jack County, TX

Did it verify

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 070525
FFWFTW
TXC237-070930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1225 AM CDT MON JUN 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 AM CDT

* AT 1225 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN JACK COUNTY 
FROM NEAR ANTELOPE TO POST OAK. MOVEMENT IS SLOWLY EAST. 

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL JACK COUNTY THROUGH 430 AM CDT

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CUNDIFF AND JACKSBORO

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 3343 9794 3304 9795 3304 9840 3342 9840

$$
07/BB

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KFWD 070621
FFSFTW
TXC237-070930-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
122 AM CDT MON JUN 7 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR JACK COUNTY UNTIL 430 AM
CDT...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE 
ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL 
OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. SUNDAY EVENING...RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE 
OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN FALL JUST NORTHEAST OF JACKSBORO.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT AND IN VEHICLES. BE ESPECIALLY 
CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF 
FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS OR DRAINAGE 
DITCHES. TAKE THE SHORTEST PATH TO REACH HIGHER GROUND...BUT DO NOT 
DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF YOU ARE NEAR...OR LIVE...IN A FLASH
FLOOD PRONE AREA...MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO WALK OR DRIVE ACROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS FLOWING.

LAT...LON 3343 9794 3305 9793 3304 9838 3342 9839

$$

07/BB

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 6, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 9:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
920 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

.UPDATE...
WILL BE ISSUING AN UPDATE SHORTLY TO INCREASE AREA OF LIKELY POPS TO
ENCOMPASS MOST OF THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE CWA. SHORT TERM
MODELS SUGGEST THAT MAIN AREA OF PRECIP WILL REMAIN OVER THE
NORTHWEST BEFORE DISSIPATING LATER TONIGHT.

65/DD

.AVIATION...
600 PM CDT

STORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE VICINITY THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...BUT
SHOULD KEEP CLEAR OF THE METRO AIRPORTS. ST/SC IN THE MORNING
QUESTIONABLE...WILL GO WITH TEMPO SCT FOR METRO APTS...BKN AT ACT.
BREEZY MONDAY AS LEE TROUGH DEEPENS. 25

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...
425 PM CDT

AFTER A WEEK OF NORTHWEST FLOW EVENTS...WE ARE NOW ENTERING A PERIOD
WHERE A WEAK SHEAR ZONE/TROUGH WILL REMAIN IN PLACE OVER NORTH
TEXAS. THE END RESULT WILL BE SEVERAL DAYS OF UNSETTLED
WEATHER...MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE REGION.

BY WEEKS END...THE LONG WAVE TROUGH WILL SET UP OVER THE WESTERN
U.S. WHICH WILL LIKELY INITIATE AFTERNOON DRY LINE ACTIVITY.
CONFIDENCE IS LOW THAT THE WESTERN PORTIONS WILL BE AFFECTED SO WE
HAVE OPTED TO NOT MENTION IT AT THIS TIME. 42

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX   71  90  72  87 /  30  20   0  20
WACO, TX               72  91  72  87 /  30  20  20  30
PARIS, TX              70  89  70  85 /  50  30  20  30
DENTON, TX             70  90  70  88 /  50  20   0  20
MCKINNEY, TX           70  90  70  88 /  50  20   0  20
DALLAS, TX             72  90  72  88 /  30  20   0  20
TERRELL, TX            71  90  71  87 /  30  30  20  30
CORSICANA, TX          71  90  72  87 /  30  30  20  30
TEMPLE, TX             71  93  72  88 /  30  30  20  30

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

EFFECTIVE TUESDAY JUNE 8 2004...THE AWIPS PRODUCT IDENTIFIER FOR
THIS PRODUCT WILL CHANGE FROM AFDFTW TO AFDFWD. THE WMO HEADER WILL
REMAIN UNCHANGED. PLEASE ENSURE THAT ANY NEEDED CHANGES ARE
COMPLETED BY JUNE 8 2004.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 11:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1102 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071100-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
1102 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS
GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...CORSICANA...ATHENS.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
OCCASIONAL WINDS GUSTING ABOVE 60 MPH AND OCCASIONAL HAIL. FLASH
FLOODING IS LIKELY AS WELL DUE TO THE DURATION OF HEAVY RAINS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF NORTH
TEXAS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE REMAINS OF THE SUNDAY NIGHT
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LEAVE BOUNDARIES ACROSS THE REGION THAT COULD
PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR NEW STORMS. LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY
WINDS...AND OCCASIONAL HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS BUT SOME OF THESE
STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA TUESDAY
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
ANTICIPATED. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
ISOLATED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE TONIGHT.

06

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 6, 10:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1027 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0930 PM     TSTM WND GST    SAGINAW                  32.87N  97.37W
06/06/2004  70 MPH          TARRANT             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WIND GUST TO 70 MPH WITH FENCES AND TREES DOWNED IN
            SAGINAW

Local storm report, Jun 6, 10:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1058 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1056 PM     HAIL            ALEDO                    32.70N  97.60W
06/06/2004  0.88 INCH       PARKER              TX   PUBLIC

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC IN ALEDO

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1106 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 PM     HAIL            BENBROOK                 32.68N  97.46W
06/06/2004  0.75 INCH       TARRANT             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DIME SIZE HAIL IN BENBROOK

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:44 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1144 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1142 PM     FLASH FLOOD     FORT WORTH               32.75N  97.34W
06/06/2004                  TARRANT             TX   MEDIA

            NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN AND WESTERN
            TARRANT COUNTY INCLUDING HIGH WATER RESCUES

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:58 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1158 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1155 PM     FLASH FLOOD     4 S DECATUR              33.18N  97.59W
06/06/2004                  WISE                TX   DPS

            HWY 287 DOWN TO ONE LANE SOUTH OF DECATUR DUE TO
            FLOODING

Local storm report, Jun 7, 12:18 AM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1218 AM CDT MON JUN 7 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1217 AM     FLOOD           GAINESVILLE              33.64N  97.15W
06/07/2004                  COOKE               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FLOODING ON SECONDARY AND COUNTY
            ROADS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	73 min
Jun 6, 7:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	96 min
Jun 6, 7:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	2 hr
Jun 6, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Denton	40 min
Jun 6, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	64 min
Jun 6, 8:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	82 min
Jun 6, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	83 min
Jun 6, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	62 min
Jun 6, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	64 min
Jun 6, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	89 min
Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	82 min
Jun 6, 10:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Jun 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	85 min
Jun 6, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	76 min
Jun 6, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	115 min
Jun 6, 11:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton, Grayson, Parker	2 hr
Jun 6, 11:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	2 hr
Jun 7, 12:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	4 hr
Jun 7, 1:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson	4 hr
Jun 7, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	3 hr
Jun 7, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	74 min
Jun 7, 4:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack	3 hr
Jun 7, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	41 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt	62 min
Jun 7, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	13 min
Jun 7, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	56 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.