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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 17, 2010Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 2010, 5:06 PM CDT for Parker 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
Apr 17, 2010, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Parker County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 48 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 266 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 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 Apr 17, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 6:23 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDYoung3 hr
Apr 17, 9:31 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDYoung119 min
Apr 17, 11:00 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDPalo Pinto, Parker8 hr
Apr 17, 11:32 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDYoung4 hr
Apr 17, 1:00 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDYoung4 days
Apr 17, 3:31 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDYoung59 min
Apr 17, 4:23 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHood, Somervell3 hr
Apr 17, 6:38 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHill, McLennan3 hr
Apr 17, 6:47 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDenton, Tarrant, Wise3 hr
Apr 17, 6:56 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto25 hr
Apr 17, 6:57 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell3 hr

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.