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Flash Flood Warning 51, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 13, 2014McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 13, 2014, 2:59 AM CDT for 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: Oct 13, 2014, 2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2014, 6:00 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -404 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 253 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 Oct 13, 2:54 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:54 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 2:58 AM CDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 13, 2:02 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 13, 2:05 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 13, 2:06 AM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 13, 2:12 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 13, 2:12 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 13, 2:20 AM CDT, 39 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 12, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	23 min
Oct 12, 10:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	34 min
Oct 12, 10:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Young	37 min
Oct 12, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	36 min
Oct 12, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	57 min
Oct 12, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	32 min
Oct 12, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	62 min
Oct 13, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	54 min
Oct 13, 12:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	32 min
Oct 13, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	54 min
Oct 13, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	66 min
Oct 13, 12:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	25 min
Oct 13, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	36 min
Oct 13, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	55 min
Oct 13, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	64 min
Oct 13, 1:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	25 min
Oct 13, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Tarrant	58 min
Oct 13, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	25 min
Oct 13, 2:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	33 min
Oct 13, 2:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	25 min
Oct 13, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	67 min
Oct 13, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	63 min
Oct 13, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	56 min
Oct 13, 3:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell	84 min
Oct 13, 3:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Comanche, Hamilton, Mills, Somervell	24 min
Oct 13, 3:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Oct 13, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt	32 min
Oct 13, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Navarro	31 min
Oct 13, 4:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	37 min
Oct 13, 4:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill	87 min
Oct 13, 6:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	84 min

Nearby

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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.