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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Sep 18, 2014, 4:18 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Sep 18, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 2014, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 18, 2014, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2014, 9:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bell County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Robertson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Sep 18, 3:59 AM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 3:59 AM CDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 17, 9:51 PM CDT, 6 hours 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 951 PM CDT WED SEP 17 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-190300- 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- 951 PM CDT WED SEP 17 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MAINLY SOUTH OF I-20 OVERNIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...MAINLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.THE MOST LIKELY REGION WOULD BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER INTO MONDAY SOUTH OF A LAMPASAS TO ATHENS LINE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 18, 12:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Falls | 91 min |
| Sep 17, 9:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 113 min |
| Sep 17, 10:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill | 85 min |
| Sep 17, 11:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 66 min |
| Sep 17, 11:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 62 min |
| Sep 18, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 64 min |
| Sep 18, 3:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 59 min |
| Sep 18, 3:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Lampasas | 85 min |
| Sep 18, 4:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 23 min |
| Sep 18, 4:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 114 min |
| Sep 18, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood | 32 min |
| Sep 18, 5:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Lampasas | 115 min |
| Sep 18, 5:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 62 min |
| Sep 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 6:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill | 113 min |
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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.