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Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 20247 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2024, 11:30 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 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
May 30, 2024, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2024, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 340 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2024-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1136 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2024-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1136 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.1

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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 May 30, 7:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 7:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 5:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 30, 6:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 30, 11:06 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland62 min
May 30, 8:46 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCollin20 hr
May 30, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton65 min
May 30, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Johnson and 2 more56 min
May 30, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant48 min
May 30, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Hamilton, Mills43 min
May 31, 12:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, Hill, Limestone, McLennan5 hr
May 31, 1:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague41 min
May 31, 1:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDComanche, Eastland44 min
May 31, 1:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDTarrant5 hr
May 31, 1:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland, Erath51 min
May 31, 1:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke27 min
May 31, 2:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills27 min
May 31, 2:09 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDTarrant18 hr
May 31, 2:09 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDNavarro67 hr
May 31, 2:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Comanche, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, Lampasas and 1 more42 min
May 31, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Hill, Lampasas and 2 more44 min
May 31, 3:03 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Erath, Hood, Somervell2 hr
May 31, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Bosque, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam and 1 more62 min
May 31, 4:13 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDMcLennan16 hr
May 31, 4:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Leon, Limestone, Milam, Robertson51 min
May 31, 5:12 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDBosque, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Johnson, Limestone and 2 more3 hr
May 31, 5:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon41 min
May 31, 5:32 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDBosque, Erath, Hood, Somervell3 hr
May 31, 6:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, Tarrant57 min
May 31, 6:28 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDComanche33 hr
May 31, 6:29 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDComanche33 hr
May 31, 6:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDBosque26 hr
May 31, 6:38 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman4 days
May 31, 2:39 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDWise54 hr
May 31, 2:39 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon16 days

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2024Every flash flood warning in 2024

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.