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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2005, 5:26 AM CDT for Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 3 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
- Aug 10, 2005, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2005, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Falls 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 101030 FFWFWD TXC145-101330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 526 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FALLS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 521 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE FALLS COUNTY. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT GOLINDA AND MARLIN. 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. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER CAN CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3115 9716 3134 9673 3151 9681 3128 9728 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KFWD 101200 FFSFWD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 700 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 TXC145-101330- FALLS TX- 700 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR FALLS COUNTY... AT 659 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NEAR WESTPHALIA AND BLEVINS...TO MARLIN...AND EAST TO NEAR KOSSE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MARLIN AND GOLINDA. FALLS COUNTY E.M.S. HAS REPORTED FLOODING OVER HIGHWAY 77 NEAR GOLINDA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF UP TO 1.5 INCHES IS LIKELY... WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOOD SITUATION. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A COUPLE FEET OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN FORT WORTH. LAT...LON 3104 9708 3123 9666 3151 9681 3128 9728 $$
000 WGUS74 KFWD 101257 FFSFWD FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 751 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 TXC145-101330- FALLS TX- 751 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 AM CDT FOR FALLS COUNTY... AT 746 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF FALLS COUNTY...GENERALLY FROM CHILTON TO MARLIN AND SOUTHWARD. MOVEMENT OF THE RAIN WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MARLIN...LOTT AND GOLINDA. FALLS COUNTY E.M.S. REPORTED WATER OVER ROADS IN THE GOLINDA AND LOTT VICINITIES. NUMEROUS LOW-LYING AREAS WERE COVERED IN WATER...MAKING TRAVEL HAZARDOUS ACROSS THE COUNTY. RAINFALL OF UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MAINLY SOUTHERN PARTS OF FALLS COUNTY...AGGRAVATING THE FLOODING PROBLEM. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A COUPLE FEET OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 3104 9708 3123 9666 3151 9681 3128 9728 $$
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 Aug 10, 4:54 AM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 4:54 AM CDT, 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 454 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... WEAK WARM CORE UPPER LEVEL LOW FOR THE THIRD NIGHT IN A ROW HAS PRODUCED A ROUND OF NOCTURNAL CONVECTION WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR CONTINUED FLOODING ACROSS THE SRN CWA THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING. SLIGHTLY DRIER MID LEVEL AIR SEEMS TO BE WORKING INTO SOME OF THE STORMS IN THE WEST AS RADAR CHARACTERISTICS OF WEAK ECHO CHANNELS CAN BE SEEN. THIS MAY PRODUCE A STRONGER COLD POOL WHICH WOULD RESULT IN SOME FASTER PROPAGATION. ALSO BY MID MORNING...ONCE HEATING OCCURS OUTSIDE OF THE COMPLEX...THE INFLOW MECHANISM WITH THE CORE OF THE SYSTEM WILL END AS OUTFLOWS DEVELOP AND EXPAND OUTWARD. THUS...COVERAGE SHOULD REALLY DECREASE BY NOON AND THE HEAVY RAINFALL THREAT ALSO DIMINISHES. THE INHERITED FLOOD WATCH RUNNING THROUGH 4 PM IS STILL APPROPRIATE GIVEN THE LAG IN RUN-OFF. TO THE NORTH OF THE FLOOD WATCH EXPECT JUST SOME GENERIC ISOLATED CONVECTION AS AIRMASS WILL BE DRIER AND INFLUENCED BY WEAK SUBSIDENCE. UPPER LEVEL PATTERN BEGINS TO CHANGE BY TONIGHT WITH THE RIDGE OVER THE DESERT SW BREAKING DOWN. THIS WILL CAUSE THE UPPER LEVEL SHEAR AXIS OVER THE AREA TO WEAKEN...AND ALSO AN INCREASE IN SOUTHERLY 850 MB FLOW THURSDAY MORNING. PESKY VERTICALLY STACKED WEAK UPPER LOW WILL FINALLY WEAKEN AS WIND FIELD SHEARS IT APART AND DO NOT EXPECT ANOTHER REPEAT OF FLOODING TONIGHT. HOWEVER... STRONG WARM ADVECTION TONIGHT IN THE LOW LEVELS MAY RESULT IN SOME ISO/SCT SHOWERS STREAMING NORTH DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WARMER TEMPS ARE IN STORE FOR THURSDAY DUE TO WARM ADVECTION AND A WEAK RIDGE WEDGING ITS WAY INTO THE AREA. WILL CONTINUE THE DRY AND WARM FORECAST THEREAFTER THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. WENT WITH TEMPS JUST A LITTLE COOLER THAN MEX MOS... ESPECIALLY IN THE SW CWA WHERE GROUNDS WILL BE SATURATED. MODELS CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE INCREASING CHANCES OF RAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK AS TROUGH IN THE WEST MOVES INTO THE PLAINS AND HAVE CONTINUED THE SLIGHT CHANCE. DO NOT THINK COLD FRONT WILL MAKE IT INTO THE AREA NEXT WEEK...BUT MAY ENHANCE CHANCES OF RAIN IN THE NORTH. LATER SHIFTS MAY CONSIDER BUMPING POPS UP WHEN MORE CERTAINTY IS ATTAINED. TR/92 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 94 74 96 77 / 20 20 10 0 WACO, TX 86 74 95 76 / 90 30 20 0 PARIS, TX 95 72 95 73 / 20 20 10 0 DENTON, TX 94 73 97 75 / 20 20 10 0 MCKINNEY, TX 94 73 96 76 / 20 20 10 0 DALLAS, TX 93 74 96 77 / 20 20 10 0 TERRELL, TX 92 73 96 76 / 30 20 20 0 CORSICANA, TX 88 73 96 76 / 80 30 20 0 TEMPLE, TX 86 74 94 75 / 90 30 20 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 4 PM WEDNESDAY FOR TXZ141-TXZ142-TXZ143- TXZ147-TXZ148-TXZ156-TXZ157-TXZ158-TXZ159-TXZ160-TXZ161-TXZ162- TXZ174-TXZ175. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 5:00 AM CDT, 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 500 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100- 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- 500 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR THOSE PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO WACO...TO FAIRFIELD...AND TO PALESTINE. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS IN THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA. AREAS OF WIDESPREAD FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR WILL FALL WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. OUTSIDE OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE MUCH MORE ISOLATED IN NATURE. STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...AS IS COMMON WITH SUMMERTIME THUNDERSTORMS. THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE THAT HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE HEAVY RAIN SHOULD WEAKEN TONIGHT...WITH JUST ISOLATED STORMS LINGERING SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... DRY WEATHER SHOULD RETURN TO THE REGION THURSDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. THE NEXT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS SHOULD BEGIN EARLY NEXT WEEK...AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. AT THIS TIME...IT IS TOO EARLY TO ASSESS SEVERE OR FLOOD POTENTIAL ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PARTICULAR SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED MAINLY ACROSS THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH AREA. 92
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 4:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
424 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0423 AM FLASH FLOOD GATESVILLE 31.44N 97.73W
08/10/2005 CORYELL TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
WIDESPREAD STREET FLOODING IN GATESVILLELocal storm report, Aug 10, 5:21 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
521 AM CDT WED AUG 10 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0518 AM FLASH FLOOD PRIDDY 31.67N 98.51W
08/10/2005 MILLS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
6 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER ACROSS HIGHWAY 16 NEAR PRIDDY IN
3 LOCATIONS. ROAD HAS BEEN CLOSED. ALSO WATER COMING ONTO
183 NEAR MULLIN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Falls | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Mills | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 3 hr |
| Aug 10, 9:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
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.