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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 2024Collin County, Denton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 2024, 2:22 AM CDT for Collin County, Denton 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: May 5, 2024, 2:22 AM CDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2024, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Collin County, TX, Denton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 4, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 11:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 11:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 9:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 9:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 9:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 11:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	40 min
May 4, 7:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	7 hr
May 4, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	8 hr
May 4, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton	61 min
May 4, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	64 min
May 4, 8:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	30 min
May 4, 9:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	33 min
May 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hamilton	6 hr
May 4, 10:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	6 hr
May 4, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	7 hr
May 4, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	8 hr
May 4, 11:54 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	25 hr
May 4, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	4 hr
May 5, 12:12 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell	59 hr
May 5, 12:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell	20 hr
May 5, 1:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	115 min
May 5, 1:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
May 5, 2:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton	34 hr
May 5, 2:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, McLennan	17 hr
May 5, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	17 hr
May 5, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	17 hr
May 5, 2:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	54 hr
May 5, 2:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
May 5, 3:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	3 hr
May 5, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	5 hr
May 5, 4:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	33 min
May 5, 6:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
May 5, 6:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	13 hr
May 5, 6:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	72 hr
May 5, 6:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	15 hr
May 5, 7:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	31 hr
May 5, 7:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	27 hr
May 5, 7:51 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	3 hr
May 5, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	19 hr
May 5, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Lampasas	13 hr
May 5, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	12 hr
May 5, 8:22 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	48 hr
May 5, 9:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	16 hr

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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.