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Flash Flood Warning 107, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 24, 2007Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2007, 4:03 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 117 min. 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 24, 2007, 4:03 PM CDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 24, 2:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 3:25 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-251100-
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-
325 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
THIS EVENING WHEN A COLD FRONT STALLS OVER THE REGION. HEAVY
RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF
THE STORMS.  A FEW STORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH HAIL
UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...COUPLED WITH ENERGY FROM A WEAK AND
SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...WILL BRING A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS TO MOST OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO ORGANIZED
SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 3:05 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 3:16 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 3:32 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 3:37 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 3:38 PM CDT, 25 minutes 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 23, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	27 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	31 min
May 24, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	27 min
May 24, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	23 min
May 24, 11:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	36 min
May 24, 12:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Archer, Clay, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Stephens and 2 more	27 min
May 24, 1:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Stephens and 2 more	28 min
May 24, 2:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	22 min
May 24, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	29 min
May 24, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	24 min
May 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	37 min
May 24, 3:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	3 hr
May 24, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	25 min
May 24, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	35 min
May 24, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	19 min
May 24, 3:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
May 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	29 min
May 24, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	63 min
May 24, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	56 min
May 24, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	25 min
May 24, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	33 min
May 24, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	46 min
May 24, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	33 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 24, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.