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Flash Flood Warning 134, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 2015Eastland County, Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2015, 3:34 AM CDT for Eastland County, Stephens 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: May 30, 2015, 3:34 AM CDT (08:34 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2015, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Eastland County, TX, Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:37 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 30, 12:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 12:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 2:28 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
228 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

TXZ104-300800-
COLLIN-
228 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL COLLIN COUNTY...

AT 227 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER RICHARDSON...MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PLANO...GARLAND...RICHARDSON...WYLIE...SACHSE...MURPHY AND PARKER.

LAT...LON 3298 9660 3298 9667 3299 9678 3303 9678
      3304 9659
TIME...MOT...LOC 0727Z 273DEG 13KT 3301 9673

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Special weather statement, May 30, 3:03 AM CDT, 31 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
303 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

TXZ129-300830-
EASTLAND-
303 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTLAND COUNTY...

AT 303 AM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR CISCO...MOVING EAST AT
50 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASTLAND...CISCO...RANGER...GORMAN...RISING STAR AND CARBON.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 324 AND 363.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3251 9911 3251 9847 3230 9848 3208 9893
      3209 9911
TIME...MOT...LOC 0803Z 264DEG 42KT 3233 9905

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Special weather statement, May 30, 3:32 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
332 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

TXZ115-116-129-300915-
PALO PINTO TX-STEPHENS TX-EASTLAND TX-
332 AM CDT SAT MAY 30 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN EASTLAND...WESTERN
PALO PINTO AND STEPHENS COUNTIES UNTIL 415 AM CDT...

AT 332 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF
CRYSTAL FALLS TO GUNSIGHT...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BRECKENRIDGE...NECESSITY...GUNSIGHT...CRYSTAL FALLS...POSSUM KINGDOM
STATE PARK...STRAWN AND MINGUS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3295 9888 3295 9843 3296 9843 3296 9837
      3251 9843 3251 9847 3250 9848 3249 9893
TIME...MOT...LOC 0832Z 271DEG 20KT 3294 9879 3257 9885

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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
May 30, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	37 min
May 30, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	32 min
May 30, 2:34 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	6 hr
May 30, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	27 min
May 30, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	43 min
May 30, 3:50 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	6 hr
May 30, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	28 min
May 30, 4:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	3 hr
May 30, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	31 min
May 30, 4:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Erath	3 hr
May 30, 4:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Parker	51 min
May 30, 4:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Parker	3 hr
May 30, 4:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	6 hr
May 30, 5:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Somervell	3 hr
May 30, 5:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Young	5 days
May 30, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	47 min
May 30, 5:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
May 30, 5:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	3 hr
May 30, 5:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
May 30, 5:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	39 min
May 30, 5:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Hill	3 hr
May 30, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	46 min
May 30, 6:07 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
May 30, 6:16 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall	3 hr
May 30, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall	48 min
May 30, 6:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
May 30, 6:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	3 hr
May 30, 7:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	42 min
May 30, 7:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone, Navarro	3 hr
May 30, 7:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	117 min
May 30, 8:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	15 hr
May 30, 8:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	2 hr
May 30, 8:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	3 hr
May 30, 8:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	3 hr
May 30, 8:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	3 hr
May 30, 8:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	3 hr
May 30, 8:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
May 30, 8:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Rains	3 hr
May 30, 9:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	22 hr
May 30, 9:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	3 hr
May 30, 9:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hopkins	3 hr
May 30, 9:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	19 hr
May 30, 10:11 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	3 hr
May 30, 11:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Johnson, Tarrant	3 hr
May 30, 12:44 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	33 hr
May 30, 1:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	6 hr
May 30, 1:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman	8 hr
May 30, 2:02 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	33 hr

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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.