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Flash Flood Warning 117, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 26, 2007Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2007, 3:26 AM CDT for Bell 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 26, 2007, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2007, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
3 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 08:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 257 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 May 25, 11:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 11:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 1:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
145 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007

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

0144 AM     FLASH FLOOD      WALNUT SPRINGS          32.06N  97.75W
05/26/2007                   BOSQUE             TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            COUNTY 2590 NEAR WALNUT SPRINGS HAS WATER OVER THE ROAD.
            SOME MINOR FLOODING ELSEWHERE.
Local storm report, May 26, 1:56 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
156 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007

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

0156 AM     FLOOD            KILLEEN                 31.10N  97.72W
05/26/2007                   BELL               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SO CONTINUES TO STATE SOME FLOODED AREAS OFF HWY 190
            FROM HARKER HEIGHTS TO KILLEEN...THEN SOUTH DOWN COUNTY
            ROAD 440 TOWARD DING DONG.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton3 hr
May 25, 11:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton3 hr
May 26, 12:28 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr
May 26, 6:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
May 26, 6:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 hr
May 26, 7:24 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Milam3 hr
May 26, 8:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone3 hr
May 26, 9:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill3 hr
May 26, 10:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Milam3 hr
May 26, 10:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro3 hr
May 26, 11:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone3 hr
May 26, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker3 hr
May 26, 6:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.