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Flash Flood Warning 165, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 8, 2015Comanche County, Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2015, 11:00 AM CDT for Comanche County, Erath 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: Jul 8, 2015, 11:00 AM CDT (16:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Comanche County, TX, Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 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 Jul 8, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 6:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 3:42 AM CDT, 7 hours 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
342 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091100-
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-
342 AM CDT WED JUL 8 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
HEAVY RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS MAINLY
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE...TO WAXAHACHIE...TO SULPHUR
SPRINGS. THE BULK OF THE HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NORTH AND WEST OF THE
DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX THIS MORNING...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:24 AM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:26 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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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
Jul 8, 1:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	10 hr
Jul 8, 2:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	2 hr
Jul 8, 2:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Montague	112 min
Jul 8, 9:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	3 days
Jul 8, 10:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath	3 hr
Jul 8, 12:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
Jul 8, 12:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	114 min
Jul 8, 1:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Eastland	118 min
Jul 8, 1:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	4 days
Jul 8, 1:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	25 hr
Jul 8, 3:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	3 hr
Jul 8, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	27 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.