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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2024Leon County, Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 2024, 11:47 AM CDT for Leon County, Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 3, 2024, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Leon County, TX, Robertson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:48 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

Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 314 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lake Charles Mun, LA at 12:00Z on 2024-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1323 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 9:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque32 min
May 2, 10:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills37 min
May 2, 10:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas43 min
May 2, 10:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque, Hamilton24 min
May 2, 11:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque, Hamilton37 min
May 2, 11:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLampasas31 min
May 2, 11:22 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBosque, Coryell, Hamilton3 hr
May 2, 11:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCoryell30 min
May 3, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan54 min
May 3, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone38 min
May 3, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon24 min
May 3, 3:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHopkins27 min
May 3, 12:07 PM CDTFlood WatchFWDAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more44 hr
May 3, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto23 min
May 3, 6:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung36 min
May 3, 6:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto24 min
May 3, 6:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack30 min
May 3, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack38 min

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.