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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Mar 7, 2016, 2:53 PM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 8, 2016, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2016, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 8, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Anderson County, TX, Delta County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 357 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at Mar 7, 12:20 PM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 12:20 PM CST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 5:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Erath | 55 min |
| Mar 7, 5:51 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 114 min |
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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.