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Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 31, 2013Freestone County, Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 31, 2013, 5:14 AM CDT for Freestone County, Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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: Oct 31, 2013, 5:14 AM CDT (10:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2013, 9:15 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Freestone County, TX, Limestone County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:14 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 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Oct 31, 4:46 AM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 4:46 AM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 30, 9:17 PM CDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
917 PM CDT WED OCT 30 2013

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-010230-
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-
917 PM CDT WED OCT 30 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.
SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL.

A HEAVY RAINFALL EVENT IS LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN PARTS OF
NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT.  LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN FLASH
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR
AND SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 30 CORRIDOR. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS
IN EFFECT ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM TEMPLE TO CORSICANA
TO EMORY THROUGH 10 AM THURSDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST THURSDAY MORNING.
SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR EAST OF A PARIS TO TEMPLE LINE.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
AND CENTRAL TEXAS MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TONIGHT.

CAVANAUGH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:28 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:41 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 3:58 AM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 5:02 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 5:07 AM CDT, 7 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
Oct 30, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Leon	3 hr
Oct 30, 8:26 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	36 hr
Oct 30, 8:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	3 hr
Oct 30, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Milam	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	3 hr
Oct 31, 12:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	3 hr
Oct 31, 1:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	5 hr
Oct 31, 1:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	4 hr
Oct 31, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	4 hr
Oct 31, 2:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	4 days
Oct 31, 3:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	3 hr
Oct 31, 5:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	4 hr
Oct 31, 6:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	3 hr
Oct 31, 6:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Milam, Robertson	3 hr
Oct 31, 9:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Falls, Freestone, Leon, Limestone and 2 more	6 hr

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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.