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Flash Flood Warning 115, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 2015, 8:31 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2015, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2015, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 7 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
- 2338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
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 May 27, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 252 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-281215- 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- 252 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED...ANY SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL COULD EASILY LEAD TO FLOODING ISSUES. ONCE AGAIN...THE ACTIVITY WILL LINGER INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK... WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER EACH DAY. THE HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES WILL BE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY...WHEN WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 67 min |
| May 27, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 48 min |
| May 27, 7:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant, Wise | 58 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton | 113 min |
| May 27, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 33 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 35 min |
| May 28, 2:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 5 days |
| May 28, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 59 hr |
| May 28, 6:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 3 hr |
| May 28, 7:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 28, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 4 hr |
| May 28, 12:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 49 min |
| May 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 49 min |
| May 28, 2:07 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 18 hr |
| May 28, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 31 min |
| May 28, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 63 min |
| May 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 51 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens, Young | 119 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 44 min |
| May 28, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 41 min |
| May 28, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 63 min |
| May 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 114 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.