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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood watch at Aug 25, 2017, 3:41 AM CDT for 8 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 26, 2017, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 61 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2017, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 26, 2017, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2017, 8:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 760 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 25, 12:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 9:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Eastland | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:39 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hood, Parker | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 117 min |
| Aug 25, 6:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Jack, Wise | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 7:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hood, Parker | 118 min |
| Aug 25, 8:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 87 min |
| Aug 25, 8:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 10:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens, Young | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Palo Pinto | 116 min |
Nearby
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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.