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Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 1, 2017Eastland County, Stephens County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Apr 1, 2017, 9:27 PM CDT for Eastland County, Stephens County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 1, 2017, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2017, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Eastland County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Apr 1, 4:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 4:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 4:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 1, 4:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 1, 4:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 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
Apr 1, 10:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	55 min
Apr 1, 10:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	61 min
Apr 1, 11:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	25 min
Apr 2, 12:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	23 min
Apr 2, 12:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	33 min
Apr 2, 1:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	27 min
Apr 2, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	26 min
Apr 2, 1:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath	2 hr
Apr 2, 2:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	33 min
Apr 2, 3:06 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant	114 min
Apr 2, 3:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Dallas, Ellis and 19 more	11 hr
Apr 2, 5:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hamilton	119 min
Apr 2, 6:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	25 min
Apr 2, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	39 min
Apr 2, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	24 min
Apr 2, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	38 min
Apr 2, 7:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	35 min
Apr 2, 7:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	41 min
Apr 2, 7:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Lampasas	3 hr
Apr 2, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	46 min
Apr 2, 8:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	45 min
Apr 2, 8:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 2, 8:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	43 min
Apr 2, 8:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Coryell	3 hr
Apr 2, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	38 min
Apr 2, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis, Hill	44 min
Apr 2, 9:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	31 min
Apr 2, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	37 min
Apr 2, 9:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 2, 9:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
Apr 2, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	62 min
Apr 2, 10:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam, Robertson	52 min
Apr 2, 10:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	25 min
Apr 2, 10:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Hill, Limestone, Navarro	4 hr
Apr 2, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	36 min
Apr 2, 10:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Falls, Leon, Limestone, Milam, Robertson	5 hr
Apr 2, 10:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
Apr 2, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	52 min
Apr 2, 11:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	60 min
Apr 2, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	42 min
Apr 2, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	45 min
Apr 2, 11:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Freestone, Leon	3 hr
Apr 2, 11:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	32 min
Apr 2, 12:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	3 hr
Apr 2, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	46 min
Apr 2, 12:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hunt, Rains	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.