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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 10, 2010Henderson County, Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2010, 2:50 AM CDT for Henderson County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 115 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
Jun 10, 2010, 2:50 AM CDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2010, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Henderson County, TX, Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2010-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 154 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2010-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 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
154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 Jun 9, 11:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 11:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 2:48 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
248 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100-
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-
248 AM CDT THU JUN 10 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A
BONHAM...TO DALLAS...TO HILLSBORO...TO WACO...TO CAMERON LINE.
AREAS WITHIN THE WATCH AREA COULD SEE WIDESPREAD 1-3 INCHES WITH
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS.

AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.
LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS...AS WELL AS WIDESPREAD STREET
FLOODING...IS EXPECTED IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE EXCESSIVE RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED THE REST OF THE WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED FOR FLOOD REPORTS AND
THE FEW STORMS THAT MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:29 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLimestone91 min
Jun 9, 9:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone118 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson4 hr
Jun 9, 11:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone2 hr
Jun 10, 1:09 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHenderson2 hr
Jun 10, 1:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLimestone2 hr
Jun 10, 1:19 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDLimestone19 hr
Jun 10, 1:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, McLennan3 hr
Jun 10, 2:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson116 min
Jun 10, 2:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt2 hr
Jun 10, 4:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson4 hr
Jun 10, 4:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman, Van Zandt3 hr
Jun 10, 4:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro3 hr
Jun 10, 7:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt4 hr
Jun 10, 7:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro4 hr
Jun 10, 8:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Navarro4 hr
Jun 10, 8:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill37 min
Jun 10, 8:52 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill23 min
Jun 10, 9:18 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon59 hr
Jun 10, 10:02 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDLeon, Robertson4 days
Jun 10, 10:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDVan Zandt34 min
Jun 10, 10:42 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro70 hr
Jun 10, 11:23 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt3 hr
Jun 10, 11:29 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson8 hr
Jun 10, 11:43 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Hill, Limestone, Navarro8 hr
Jun 10, 2:04 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt6 hr
Jun 10, 4:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson, Henderson25 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.