Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Watches in 2007
Flash Flood Watch 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 2, 2007, 3:21 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 2, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2007, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 3, 2007, 3:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 21 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Somervell County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 131 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at May 2, 12:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 2:39 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 239 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031945- 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- 239 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT...ALONG AND SOUTH OF A CISCO...GRANBURY...HILLSBORO...CORSICANA...ATHENS LINE...DUE TO RECENT...HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THIS AREA. SCATTERED...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES WILL MOVE INTO FAR WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS BY 3 PM AND AFTER. THIS COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD TO THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR THROUGH MIDNIGHT. A TORNADO OR TWO CANT BE RULED OUT THROUGH THIS EVENING. OVERNIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS...WITH THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20...WHERE STRONGER INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR ALOFT WILL WILL RESIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING THURSDAY MORNING...WITH THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER BEING OVER SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE REGION. ACTIVITY SHOULD SLOWLY TAPER OFF IN THE AFTERNOON... AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES SHIFTS EAST AWAY FROM THE AREA BY THURSDAY EVENING. LOW CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO FAR WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THEN OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS MONDAY AND TUESDAY...WHEN ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEMS DEEPENS OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES ONCE AGAIN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 THROUGH LATE EVENING...THEN AREAS FURTHER EAST BY MIDNIGHT AND AFTER. 05/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 27 min |
| May 1, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 36 min |
| May 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 4 hr |
| May 1, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 59 min |
| May 1, 8:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 26 min |
| May 1, 8:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 1, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 65 min |
| May 1, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 55 min |
| May 1, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 33 min |
| May 1, 9:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 61 min |
| May 1, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 54 min |
| May 1, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 33 min |
| May 1, 9:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 61 min |
| May 1, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 32 min |
| May 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 64 min |
| May 1, 10:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 54 min |
| May 1, 10:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 111 min |
| May 1, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls | 63 min |
| May 1, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 63 min |
| May 1, 10:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 67 min |
| May 1, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 55 min |
| May 2, 12:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 60 min |
| May 2, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls | 53 min |
| May 2, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls | 37 min |
| May 2, 1:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 58 min |
| May 2, 2:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 31 min |
| May 2, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Hamilton, Mills | 27 min |
| May 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 55 min |
| May 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 64 min |
| May 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 62 min |
| May 2, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 66 min |
| May 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 46 min |
| May 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hood, Somervell | 82 min |
| May 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 21 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 26 min |
| May 2, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 76 min |
| May 2, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 36 min |
| May 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 61 min |
| May 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 40 min |
| May 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 57 min |
| May 2, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 67 min |
| May 2, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 59 min |
| May 2, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 81 min |
| May 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 70 min |
| May 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 76 min |
| May 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 3 hr |
| May 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 21 min |
| May 2, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| May 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Rockwall | 73 min |
| May 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 67 min |
| May 2, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 97 min |
| May 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 25 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.