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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 19, 2019Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2019, 8:22 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2019, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2019, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 3350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1858 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 18.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Jun 19, 6:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
326 PM CDT Wed Jun 19 2019

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-201200-
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-
326 PM CDT Wed Jun 19 2019

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for North and Central Texas.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Strong to severe thunderstorms are likely to develop late this
afternoon, near and to the northeast of the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metropolitan Area. The primary hazards will be very large hail and
damaging to possibly destructive winds. There will also be a risk for
tornadoes, namely for thunderstorms near any residual boundaries.
Heavy rainfall may result in localized flooding, particularly in
urban areas.

Late tonight, the risk for strong to severe storms will shift into
Central and East Texas. The main hazards will be large hail and
damaging winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday.

Hot conditions are expected again on Thursday...especially across
Central Texas. Heat index values may climb to near or just above
105 degrees.

After a break in storm chances on Friday, more scattered
thunderstorms are possible over the upcoming weekend.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will likely be requested over most of North and
parts of Central Texas.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
604 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0543 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GREENVILLE              33.13N  96.12W
06/19/2019                   HUNT               TX   PUBLIC

            BUSINESS WITH ROOF DAMAGE AT HIGHWAY 380 AND SAYLE
            STREET ON SOUTH SIDE OF GREENVILLE

Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 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
Jun 19, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	66 min
Jun 19, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	62 min
Jun 19, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	39 min
Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	65 min
Jun 19, 9:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	25 min
Jun 19, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	62 min
Jun 19, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	65 min
Jun 19, 9:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas, McLennan	64 min
Jun 19, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt	30 min
Jun 19, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	42 min
Jun 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	41 min
Jun 19, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hill, Lampasas and 2 more	72 min
Jun 19, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	64 min
Jun 19, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	47 min
Jun 19, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam, Robertson	54 min
Jun 19, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	43 min
Jun 19, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Van Zandt	76 min
Jun 19, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Leon	52 min
Jun 19, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains	61 min
Jun 19, 11:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt	3 hr
Jun 19, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	19 min
Jun 20, 1:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Somervell	49 min
Jun 20, 1:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	43 min
Jun 20, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Somervell	66 min
Jun 20, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	45 min
Jun 20, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	39 min
Jun 20, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	47 min
Jun 20, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	53 min
Jun 20, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	32 min
Jun 20, 4:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Robertson	57 min
Jun 20, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	36 min
Jun 20, 7:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	27 min
Jun 20, 7:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	56 min
Jun 20, 9:48 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	23 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2019 Every flash flood warning in 2019

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.