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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Mar 7, 2024, 1:54 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 2 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
- Mar 7, 2024, 1:54 PM CST (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2024, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Jack County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Stephens County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Mar 6, 3:52 PM CST, 22 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 3:52 PM CST, 22 hours 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 8:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 52 min |
| Mar 7, 12:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 30 min |
| Mar 7, 8:01 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 48 hr |
| Mar 7, 1:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Tarrant, Wise and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 2:24 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 51 min |
| Mar 7, 3:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson | 22 min |
| Mar 7, 3:29 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 3:49 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| Mar 7, 4:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 28 min |
| Mar 7, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 5:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 2 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.