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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 17, 2016, 6:39 PM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 2016, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Limestone County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 9:11 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | 7 Wsw Mexia, TX | 5-6 INCHES OF WATER OVER THE ROADWAY AT CR 377 AND CR 374. NEAR LAKE MEXIA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
314
WGUS54 KFWD 172339
FFWFWD
TXC293-180230-
/O.NEW.KFWD.FF.W.0021.160417T2339Z-160418T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
639 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY IN CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 636 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES
OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. THIS RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO EXCESSIVE
WATER RUNOFF AND CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. LOW-LYING AREAS ARE MOST
VULNERABLE TO RAPIDLY RISING WATER. SOME LOW-WATER CROSSINGS MAY
FLOOD AND BECOME IMPASSABLE.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
MEXIA...MART...COOLIDGE...FORT PARKER STATE PARK AND TEHUACANA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 3140 9672 3171 9693 3181 9672 3180 9651
3166 9641
$$
791 follow-up statement
722
WGUS74 KFWD 180231
FFSFWD
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
931 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
TXC293-180239-
/O.EXP.KFWD.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-160418T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LIMESTONE TX-
931 PM CDT SUN APR 17 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN LIMESTONE COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 930 PM CDT...
THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED TO
POSE A THREAT. HOWEVER...WATER WILL REMAIN ON MANY ROADS AND LOW
LYING AREAS THROUGH THE NIGHT. PLEASE CONTINUE TO HEED ANY REMAINING
ROAD CLOSURES.
LAT...LON 3140 9672 3171 9693 3181 9672 3180 9651
3166 9641
$$
79The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Young | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 12:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 1:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 36 min |
| Apr 17, 1:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Young | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens | 118 min |
| Apr 17, 2:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Eastland | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 3:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague, Wise | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 3:46 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 14 days |
| Apr 17, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 48 min |
| Apr 17, 4:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke | 56 min |
| Apr 17, 5:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 43 min |
| Apr 17, 5:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 days |
| Apr 17, 5:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 24 min |
| Apr 17, 6:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 6:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 50 min |
| Apr 17, 6:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 53 min |
| Apr 17, 7:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 7:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 7:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 24 min |
| Apr 17, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 8:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 61 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 54 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 66 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 8 days |
| Apr 17, 9:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 6 days |
| Apr 17, 9:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 9:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 42 hr |
| Apr 17, 10:38 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 64 hr |
| Apr 17, 10:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 119 min |
| Apr 17, 11:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 31 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, McLennan, Navarro | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 6 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:08 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 21 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 57 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 5 days |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 15 days |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 4 days |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 20 days |
| Apr 17, 12:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 22 days |
| Apr 17, 12:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 115 min |
| Apr 17, 12:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson | 9 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 3 days |
| Apr 17, 3:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 4 days |
| Apr 17, 3:10 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell | 22 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 26 min |
| Apr 17, 4:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.