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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 3, 2020, 8:50 AM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2020, 8:50 AM CDT (13:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2020, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Mills County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:51 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 1520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 Sep 2, 2:24 PM CDT, 18 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:24 PM CDT, 18 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 3:24 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 4:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:27 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 6:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas | 41 min |
| Sep 3, 6:29 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone, Leon | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 5 hr |
| Sep 3, 7:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Limestone | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 8:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Falls, Freestone, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 12:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 3 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 42 hr |
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.