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Flash Flood Warning 215, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 31, 20154 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Oct 31, 2015, 1:29 AM CDT for 4 counties in 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: Oct 31, 2015, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2015, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bosque County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Somervell County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 513 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 614 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 Oct 31, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 12:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 30, 11:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 31, 12:53 AM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:06 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:13 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:15 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:21 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 31, 1:24 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
124 AM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0115 AM     FLASH FLOOD      4 W GLEN ROSE           32.23N  97.82W
10/31/2015                   SOMERVELL          TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            CR1001 AND CR1008 AT THE PALUXY RIVER CLOSED DUE TO HIGH
            WATER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 30, 7:35 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Limestone, Navarro	115 min
Oct 30, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	42 min
Oct 30, 8:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche	115 min
Oct 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	McLennan	2 hr
Oct 30, 8:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas	3 hr
Oct 30, 9:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	111 min
Oct 30, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	62 min
Oct 30, 9:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	115 min
Oct 30, 9:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	60 hr
Oct 30, 9:23 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	5 days
Oct 30, 9:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	55 min
Oct 30, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
Oct 30, 10:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	18 hr
Oct 30, 10:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	3 hr
Oct 30, 11:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	20 hr
Oct 30, 11:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood	3 hr
Oct 30, 11:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	59 hr
Oct 31, 12:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	21 hr
Oct 31, 12:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	3 hr
Oct 31, 1:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	3 hr
Oct 31, 1:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Oct 31, 1:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman	4 hr
Oct 31, 1:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	54 min
Oct 31, 1:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 hr
Oct 31, 2:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	66 min
Oct 31, 2:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill	3 hr
Oct 31, 2:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	44 hr
Oct 31, 2:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	32 hr
Oct 31, 2:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Hood	3 hr
Oct 31, 2:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	65 min
Oct 31, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	63 min
Oct 31, 3:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 days
Oct 31, 3:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Oct 31, 3:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	9 days
Oct 31, 4:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Oct 31, 4:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
Oct 31, 4:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Oct 31, 4:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam	3 hr
Oct 31, 5:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman	2 hr
Oct 31, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Oct 31, 5:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Robertson	4 hr
Oct 31, 5:45 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
Oct 31, 6:02 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	4 hr
Oct 31, 7:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
Oct 31, 7:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam	3 hr
Oct 31, 8:46 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	5 days
Oct 31, 8:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Limestone	3 hr
Oct 31, 9:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	55 hr
Oct 31, 10:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	24 hr
Oct 31, 5:25 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	23 hr

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.