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Flash Flood Warning 145, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Dec 24, 2024, 9:09 AM CST for Parker County, 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
- Dec 24, 2024, 9:09 AM CST (15:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2024, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Parker County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:12 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 Dec 24, 5:27 AM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 5:27 AM CST, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 24, 7:19 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 26 min |
| Dec 24, 8:23 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Grayson | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 8:34 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:31 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 119 min |
| Dec 24, 10:52 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 11:39 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 12:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 26 min |
| Dec 24, 12:14 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 31 min |
| Dec 24, 12:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 35 min |
| Dec 24, 12:50 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 25 min |
| Dec 24, 1:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 2 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:36 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Rockwall | 54 min |
| Dec 24, 1:44 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 46 min |
| Dec 24, 1:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 66 min |
| Dec 24, 2:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 36 min |
| Dec 24, 2:10 PM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 5 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 45 min |
| Dec 24, 2:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:47 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 2:56 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 4:28 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 47 min |
| Dec 24, 5:15 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 5:51 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 39 min |
| Dec 24, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone | 37 min |
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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.