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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 19, 2006, 9:30 PM CST for Lamar 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 9:30 PM CST (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lamar County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 19, 6:05 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 6:05 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 4:00 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 400 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201200- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL- NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS- LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 400 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE WILL BE AN INCREASING RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS MONDAY. THE MAIN THREATS NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR WILL BE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. SOUTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR IS WHERE A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...VERY LARGE HAIL...AND POSSIBLY AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE AREAS NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE...TO HILLSBORO...TO CANTON...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. TOTAL RAINFALL ACCUMULATIONS IN THE WATCH AREA MAY EXCEED 5 INCHES IN ISOLATED LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SEVERE STORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE EARLY MONDAY MORNING EAST OF INTERSTATE 35...BEFORE A DRYLINE MOVES THROUGH AND CLEARS THINGS OUT. VERY GUSTY WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 20 TO 30 MPH...ARE EXPECTED MONDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. 92
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 19, 5:24 PM CST, 4 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
524 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0520 PM FLASH FLOOD 5 SW COMMERCE 33.19N 95.96W
03/19/2006 HUNT TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
SUPLHUR RIVER STARTING TO OVERFLOW ON STATE HIGHWAY 224
BETWEEN COMMERCE AND NEYLANDVILLE. NO BLOCKADES YET. MORE
RAIN ON THE WAY.Local storm report, Mar 19, 5:46 PM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Mar 19, 8:57 PM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 857 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 TXZ143-144-200330- BOSQUE-HAMILTON- 857 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 857 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLIFTON...CRANFILLS GAP... HAMILTON...IREDELL...LANHAM...MERIDIAN...OLIN AND MERIDIAN STATE PARK. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PEA-SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. 07/BB
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 9:23 PM CST, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 923 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 TXZ156-157-200400- CORYELL-LAMPASAS- 923 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 923 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES NORTH OF LAMPASAS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ADAMSVILLE...ARNETT... EVANT...FORT GATES...GATESVILLE AND PURMELA. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND PEA-SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. 07/BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Fannin, Hunt | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:26 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:55 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 12:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lamar | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 23 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.