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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 10, 2010Henderson County, Kaufman County, Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2010, 11:23 AM CDT for Henderson County, Kaufman County, Van Zandt 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: Jun 10, 2010, 11:23 AM CDT (16:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2010, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Henderson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 1649 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 10, 9:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 9:07 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 9:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 8:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 8:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 8:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 8:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 31 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
Jun 9, 8:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone	91 min
Jun 9, 9:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	118 min
Jun 9, 10:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	4 hr
Jun 9, 11:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	2 hr
Jun 10, 1:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson	2 hr
Jun 10, 1:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	2 hr
Jun 10, 1:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	19 hr
Jun 10, 1:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	3 hr
Jun 10, 2:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	116 min
Jun 10, 2:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	2 hr
Jun 10, 2:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	115 min
Jun 10, 4:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	4 hr
Jun 10, 4:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	3 hr
Jun 10, 4:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	3 hr
Jun 10, 7:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	4 hr
Jun 10, 7:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	4 hr
Jun 10, 8:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	4 hr
Jun 10, 8:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	37 min
Jun 10, 8:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	23 min
Jun 10, 9:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	59 hr
Jun 10, 10:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	4 days
Jun 10, 10:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	34 min
Jun 10, 10:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	70 hr
Jun 10, 11:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	8 hr
Jun 10, 11:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Hill, Limestone, Navarro	8 hr
Jun 10, 2:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	6 hr
Jun 10, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	25 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2010 Every 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.