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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 6, 2009Fannin County, Grayson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 2009, 6:52 AM CDT for Fannin County, Grayson 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 6, 2009, 6:52 AM CDT (11:52 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2009, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 2348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 367 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 5.0
Supercell composite: 16.1

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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 6, 6:44 AM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 6:44 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:36 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
436 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071100-
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-
436 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NORTHWEST OF A GRAHAM TO HEARNE LINE
TODAY. LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING POTENTIAL WILL BE
GREATEST NORTHWEST OF A BOWIE TO KAUFMAN LINE THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A BRECKENRIDGE TO
PALESTINE LINE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AND ACROSS ALL OF
NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY NIGHT. STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE NORTH OF AN
EASTLAND TO PALESTINE LINE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY NORTHWEST OF A BOWIE TO KAUFMAN LINE
THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 4:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
433 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

TXZ092-093-061000-
GRAYSON TX-COOKE TX-
433 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EASTERN COOKE COUNTY
  NORTHERN GRAYSON COUNTY

AT 432 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 23 MILES NORTH OF WHITESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL GREATER
THAN 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...A SEVERE WEATHER
WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3386 9685 3384 9671 3392 9667 3391 9659
      3384 9659 3378 9648 3379 9642 3374 9636
      3361 9637 3348 9710 3374 9718 3373 9710
      3380 9710 3382 9706 3386 9712 3383 9721
      3390 9723 3385 9702 3394 9700 3397 9692
TIME...MOT...LOC 0932Z 327DEG 29KT 3399 9696

85/NH

Special weather statement, May 6, 4:55 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
455 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

TXZ094-061030-
FANNIN TX-
455 AM CDT WED MAY 6 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHERN FANNIN COUNTY

AT 455 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES NORTHEAST
OF DURANT TO 6 MILES WEST OF DURANT TO 13 MILES NORTH OF
WHITESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM IS CURRENTLY CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
GOLF BALLS AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...A SEVERE WEATHER
WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3386 9587 3363 9605 3347 9637 3373 9637
      3371 9631 3378 9628 3376 9619 3378 9617
      3381 9619 3384 9617 3385 9602 3388 9600
      3386 9597 3389 9595 3389 9593
TIME...MOT...LOC 0955Z 311DEG 34KT 3422 9622 3398 9649
          3384 9684

85/NH

Local storm report, May 6, 5:16 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 6:25 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 6:35 AM CDT, 17 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 5, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	54 min
May 5, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens	62 min
May 5, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	27 min
May 5, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	25 min
May 5, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	56 min
May 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	22 min
May 6, 4:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	27 min
May 6, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	57 min
May 6, 4:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	35 min
May 6, 5:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	43 min
May 6, 5:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	66 min
May 6, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	57 min
May 6, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	62 min
May 6, 5:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	53 min
May 6, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	60 min
May 6, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	63 min
May 6, 7:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson, Hunt	3 hr
May 6, 8:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	2 hr
May 6, 9:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	29 min
May 6, 9:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Fannin	90 min
May 6, 9:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	35 hr
May 6, 9:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	11 hr
May 6, 10:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	4 days
May 6, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	23 hr
May 6, 11:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	21 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.