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Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 15, 2010Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 2010, 12:52 AM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 113 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 15, 2010, 12:52 AM CDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2010, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2010-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 43 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2010-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 193 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
43 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-413 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens, Young22 min
Jun 14, 9:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung35 min
Jun 14, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung28 min
Jun 14, 10:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens29 min
Jun 14, 11:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens, Young30 min
Jun 14, 11:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack, Palo Pinto23 min
Jun 15, 12:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDWise24 min
Jun 15, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague, Wise31 min
Jun 15, 1:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke, Denton, Tarrant25 min
Jun 15, 1:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin, Dallas, Grayson24 min
Jun 15, 2:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens35 min
Jun 15, 3:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens59 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.