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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 14, 2006McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2006, 1:22 PM CDT for McLennan 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: May 14, 2006, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2006, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 610 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -393 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1168 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 May 14, 12:42 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 12:42 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 6:24 AM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 12:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 12:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 12:46 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 12:47 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 1:16 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 1:21 PM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	60 min
May 13, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	62 min
May 14, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	41 min
May 14, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	62 min
May 14, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains	54 min
May 14, 4:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	45 min
May 14, 4:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	42 min
May 14, 4:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta	33 min
May 14, 4:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	49 min
May 14, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	61 min
May 14, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	64 min
May 14, 6:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	67 min
May 14, 6:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	62 min
May 14, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	33 min
May 14, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	51 min
May 14, 8:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	56 min
May 14, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	55 min
May 14, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	61 min
May 14, 9:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	63 min
May 14, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	63 min
May 14, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	61 min
May 14, 10:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
May 14, 10:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	58 min
May 14, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	53 min
May 14, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	59 min
May 14, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	58 min
May 14, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2006 Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.