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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 17, 2006Jack County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2006, 8:18 PM CDT for Jack 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: Jun 17, 2006, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2006, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jack County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 1691 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1522 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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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 Jun 17, 8:10 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 8:10 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 3:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-181100-
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-
337 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT FOR
AREAS WEST OF A GAINESVILLE TO WEATHERFORD TO HAMILTON LINE.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH AND NORTHWEST TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.
INITIALLY...LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE
STORMS...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP INTO A SEVERE LINE OF
STORMS BY LATER TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT
LATER TONIGHT AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AND DEVELOP
SOUTHWARD.

IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1
TO 3 INCHES WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO 4 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE
THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WHERE
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING...THEN
OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PORTIONS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. ORGANIZED
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

DUNN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 7:19 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
719 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

TXZ100-180045-

YOUNG-
719 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES NORTH OF BRECKENRIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE
NEEDED FOR YOUNG COUNTY.

92

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:21 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
721 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

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

0700 PM     HAIL             7 W BRECKENRIDGE        32.76N  99.03W
06/17/2006  E0.88 INCH       STEPHENS           TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NICKEL HAIL REPORTED ON THE WESTERP PART OF HUBBARD
            CREEK RESERVOIR

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:23 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
723 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

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

0721 PM     HAIL             ALVORD                  33.36N  97.69W
06/17/2006  E0.88 INCH       WISE               TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

            REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL ALONG HIGHWAY 287 IN WISE
            COUNTY - RELAYED TO STEVE DRILETTE (KAMA)

Local storm report, Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
725 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

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

0721 PM     HAIL             ALVORD                  33.36N  97.69W
06/17/2006  E0.88 INCH       WISE               TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

            REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL ALONG HIGHWAY 287 IN WISE
            COUNTY - RELAYED TO STEVE DRILLETTE (KAMA)

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 7:54 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
754 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

TXZ129-180130-

EASTLAND-
754 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE FOR EASTLAND COUNTY...

THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL
AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL INCREASE ACROSS EASTLAND COUNTY AFTER 830
PM. PEOPLE IN EASTLAND COUNTY...INCLUDING DRIVERS ON INTERSTATE 20
BETWEEN THE STRAWN...RANGER...AND CISCO EXITS...SHOULD BE ALERT TO
THE APPROACHING STORMS.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CARBON...CISCO...EASTLAND
AND RANGER.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...A SEVERE WEATHER
WARNING WILL BE NEEDED FOR EASTLAND COUNTY THIS EVENING.

07/BB

Local storm report, Jun 17, 8:00 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
800 PM CDT SAT JUN 17 2006

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

0752 PM     HAIL             PERRIN                  33.03N  98.07W
06/17/2006  E0.88 INCH       JACK               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            JACK COUNTY S.O. REPORTED NICKEL HAIL IN PERRIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	60 min
Jun 17, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	65 min
Jun 17, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	57 min
Jun 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	60 min
Jun 17, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	40 min
Jun 17, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	56 min
Jun 17, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	39 min
Jun 17, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	63 min
Jun 17, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	48 min
Jun 17, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	44 min
Jun 17, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	59 min
Jun 17, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	66 min
Jun 17, 8:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	2 hr
Jun 17, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	59 min
Jun 17, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	65 min
Jun 17, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	44 min
Jun 17, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	41 min
Jun 17, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	3 hr
Jun 17, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	65 min
Jun 18, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	66 min
Jun 18, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	47 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.