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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at May 26, 2014, 6:29 PM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 26, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2014, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 26, 2014, 9:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 27, 2014, 9:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
All 23 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at May 26, 6:00 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 6:00 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 2:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 248 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-271215- 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- 248 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT. THE THREATS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL LEADING TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. IN ADDITION...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH TEXAS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS BUT SOME HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT LOCATIONS TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE DFW AREA LATE TONIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS AND FLASH FLOODING WOULD BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TUESDAY FOR ALL OF THE REGION. THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL CONTINUE AS WELL. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL RECEIVED...LOCALIZED FLOODING MAY STILL BE A CONCERN ACROSS AREAS OF EASTERN NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING...MAINLY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH TEXAS.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 26, 2:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
224 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0150 PM TSTM WND DMG BUFFALO 31.47N 96.07W
05/26/2014 LEON TX AMATEUR RADIO
THREE 12 INCH TREES DOWN HWY 164 1/2W I-45Special weather statement, May 26, 2:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
237 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
TXZ162-262015-
LEON TX-
237 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
LEON COUNTY
AT 238 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TEAGUE...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BUFFALO AND CENTERVILLE.
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3121 9574 3116 9572 3113 9576 3109 9590
3107 9604 3102 9611 3099 9621 3125 9633
3127 9631 3129 9633 3135 9631 3146 9614
3154 9576 3123 9572
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 261DEG 17KT 3139 9602Local storm report, May 26, 4:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 21 min |
| May 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 22 min |
| May 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 117 min |
| May 26, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 38 min |
| May 26, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 119 min |
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Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2014Every flash flood watch in 2014
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.