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Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 28, 2015Cooke County, Grayson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2015, 8:11 AM CDT for Cooke County, Grayson 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
May 28, 2015, 8:11 AM CDT (13:11 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2015, 12:15 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:11 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2015-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2015-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 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 May 28, 7:14 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 7:14 AM CDT, 57 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 8:11 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:00 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDEllis, Navarro3 hr
May 27, 7:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDParker3 hr
May 27, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Tarrant67 min
May 27, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland48 min
May 27, 7:20 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDTarrant3 hr
May 27, 7:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
May 27, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant, Wise58 min
May 27, 8:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant119 min
May 27, 8:37 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDenton113 min
May 27, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton33 min
May 27, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant35 min
May 28, 2:33 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton5 days
May 28, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchFWDAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more59 hr
May 28, 6:45 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCooke, Montague3 hr
May 28, 7:37 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDGrayson3 hr
May 28, 12:05 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDCooke, Grayson3 hr
May 28, 1:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis49 min
May 28, 1:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell49 min
May 28, 2:07 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHamilton18 hr
May 28, 3:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLimestone51 min
May 28, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro31 min
May 28, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung63 min
May 28, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens51 min
May 28, 6:16 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDStephens, Young119 min
May 28, 6:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin44 min
May 28, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Hunt41 min
May 28, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young63 min
May 28, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens, Young114 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.