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Flash Flood Warning 222, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 5, 2015Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Nov 5, 2015, 11:20 PM CST for Navarro 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: Nov 5, 2015, 11:20 PM CST (05:20 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 2015, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1857 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 383 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.3
Supercell composite: 36.8

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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 Nov 5, 10:08 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 10:08 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 5, 3:43 AM CST, 19 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
343 AM CST THU NOV 5 2015

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-060945-
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-
343 AM CST THU NOV 5 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BE
STRONG TO SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING....WITH QUARTER SIZED
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH
FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE
FROM COMANCHE TO SHERMAN THROUGH TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT...MAINLY SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR.

A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN LATE TUESDAY AND
CONTINUE WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED MAINLY WEST OF A
SHERMAN-DALLAS-LAMPASAS LINE THIS AFTERNOON...AND EAST OF A
SHERMAN-DALLAS-LAMPASAS LINE THIS EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 5, 6:11 PM CST, 5 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
611 PM CST THU NOV 05 2015

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

0603 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PONDER                  33.18N  97.30W
11/05/2015                   DENTON             TX   PUBLIC

            3 LIGHT POLES SNAPPED AT PONDER HIGH SCHOOL

Local storm report, Nov 5, 6:19 PM CST, 5 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Nov 5, 6:40 PM CST, 4 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 5, 7:05 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 5, 7:46 PM CST, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST, 2 hours 14 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
Nov 5, 6:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton, Grayson	38 min
Nov 5, 6:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	3 hr
Nov 5, 7:05 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	40 min
Nov 5, 7:32 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	3 hr
Nov 5, 7:46 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	44 min
Nov 5, 8:25 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	3 hr
Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	39 min
Nov 5, 10:51 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	3 hr
Nov 6, 12:19 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	3 hr
Nov 6, 12:27 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Nov 6, 2:15 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	17 hr
Nov 6, 8:09 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	37 hr
Nov 6, 2:37 PM CST	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Falls, Freestone, Henderson, Hill and 7 more	20 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2015 Every flash flood warning in 2015

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.