Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Watches in 2016
Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Aug 17, 2016, 3:51 AM CDT for 12 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 17, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2016, 3:51 AM CDT (08:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 17, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2016, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Hill County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 Aug 16, 11:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 11:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 3:50 AM CDT, 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 350 AM CDT WED AUG 17 2016 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-180900- 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- 350 AM CDT WED AUG 17 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NEARLY ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS BOTH TODAY AND TONIGHT. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN INSTANCES OF FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY FOR AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LAMPASAS TO WACO TO MARLIN LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT APPEARS LOW DURING THIS TIME FRAME. AMPLE AMOUNTS OF MOISTURE HOWEVER...WILL YIELD A THREAT FOR FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...BUT TIMELY REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE APPRECIATED. 24-BAIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Lampasas | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:54 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 8:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Hill, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 10:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 11:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hill, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Leon, Milam, Robertson | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 85 min |
| Aug 17, 3:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 3:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2016Every flash flood watch in 2016
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.