Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2010

Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 8, 2010Bosque County, Coryell County, McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 2010, 2:17 AM CDT for Bosque County, Coryell County, McLennan 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
Sep 8, 2010, 2:17 AM CDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2010, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Bosque County, TX, Coryell County, TX, McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 00:00Z on 2010-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 528 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 00:00Z on 2010-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 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
528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Sep 7, 11:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 11:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 7, 8:04 PM CDT, 6 hours 13 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 7, 10:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Sep 7, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Sep 7, 11:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Sep 8, 12:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Sep 8, 2:09 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Sep 8, 2:14 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 7:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Coryell3 hr
Sep 7, 8:50 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLampasas3 hr
Sep 7, 9:24 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCoryell, Hamilton, Mills3 hr
Sep 7, 10:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Erath and 7 more4 hr
Sep 7, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHamilton21 min
Sep 7, 11:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBosque, Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Hood, Johnson and 4 more4 hr
Sep 8, 12:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCoryell4 hr
Sep 8, 12:50 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDWise4 hr
Sep 8, 1:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
Sep 8, 3:08 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hill, Johnson and 2 more3 hr
Sep 8, 3:17 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCooke, Hood, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker and 4 more3 hr
Sep 8, 3:23 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMcLennan22 min
Sep 8, 3:40 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton53 hr
Sep 8, 3:40 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas4 days
Sep 8, 3:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCoryell28 hr
Sep 8, 3:48 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Hill, McLennan3 hr
Sep 8, 3:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell31 min
Sep 8, 4:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Parker, Tarrant3 hr
Sep 8, 4:21 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas15 hr
Sep 8, 4:23 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan37 min
Sep 8, 4:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell4 hr
Sep 8, 4:45 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill30 min
Sep 8, 4:55 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDBell28 hr
Sep 8, 5:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise3 hr
Sep 8, 5:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan84 min
Sep 8, 5:56 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLimestone3 hr
Sep 8, 5:59 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Navarro, Rockwall3 hr
Sep 8, 6:14 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBosque, Coryell3 hr
Sep 8, 6:37 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, Hill, McLennan3 hr
Sep 8, 7:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Limestone, Navarro119 min
Sep 8, 7:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant3 hr
Sep 8, 7:22 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDFalls, Milam, Robertson3 hr
Sep 8, 8:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise3 hr
Sep 8, 8:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
Sep 8, 8:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDMilam60 hr
Sep 8, 8:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDMilam48 hr
Sep 8, 8:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDMcLennan17 hr
Sep 8, 8:58 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Navarro4 hr
Sep 8, 9:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke4 hr
Sep 8, 9:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, Hill, McLennan4 hr
Sep 8, 9:57 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDTarrant18 hr
Sep 8, 10:02 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant4 hr
Sep 8, 10:06 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDWise11 hr
Sep 8, 10:06 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas22 hr
Sep 8, 10:06 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton9 hr
Sep 8, 10:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Denton, Grayson3 hr
Sep 8, 11:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell6 hr
Sep 8, 11:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHill8 hr
Sep 8, 11:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLampasas3 hr
Sep 8, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall55 min
Sep 8, 12:22 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant45 hr
Sep 8, 12:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall3 hr
Sep 8, 12:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Navarro3 hr
Sep 8, 1:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill3 hr
Sep 8, 1:14 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, McLennan4 hr
Sep 8, 1:22 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDDenton4 hr
Sep 8, 1:58 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant6 hr
Sep 8, 3:42 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt and 3 more4 hr
Sep 8, 4:45 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas2 hr
Sep 8, 4:52 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
Sep 8, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar34 min
Sep 8, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas, Ellis33 min
Sep 8, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin, Denton23 min
Sep 8, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas, Kaufman49 min
Sep 8, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas44 min
Sep 8, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall26 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.