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Flash Flood Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 25, 2007Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2007, 4:29 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2007, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 5:04 PM CDT	FLASH FLOOD	Killeen, TX	LATEST DOWNPOUR CONTRIBUTING TO CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING. LOW WATER CROSSINGS STILL UNDER WATER.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KFWD 252130
FFWFWD
TXC027-252330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
429 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 429 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF KILLEEN...OR
  ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARKER HEIGHTS...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
  HOOD

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS THUNDERSTORM THROUGH 6 PM.  

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

LAT...LON 3092 9783 3089 9765 3118 9771 3105 9790

$$

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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 24, 7:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	37 min
May 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	32 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 25, 12:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Milam	3 hr
May 25, 11:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 32 more	3 days
May 25, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	27 min
May 25, 1:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	27 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	34 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	33 min
May 25, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	37 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.