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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 22, 20244 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2024, 2:15 PM CDT for 4 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 22, 2024, 2:15 PM CDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2024, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Collin County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 3323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.1

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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 22, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 11:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 22, 1:47 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 1:59 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:05 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:08 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:10 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 22, 2:11 PM CDT, 4 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 21, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	66 min
May 21, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	24 min
May 22, 4:41 AM CDT	Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 31 more	40 hr
May 22, 9:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	22 hr
May 22, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	61 min
May 22, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	63 min
May 22, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	29 min
May 22, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson	62 min
May 22, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Tarrant	58 min
May 22, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	3 hr
May 22, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	53 min
May 22, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	65 min
May 22, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	33 min
May 22, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	2 hr
May 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	63 min
May 22, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	65 min
May 22, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	65 min
May 22, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	60 min
May 22, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	31 min
May 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt, Rockwall	3 hr
May 22, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	55 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	3 hr
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mills	24 min
May 22, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	58 min
May 22, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	5 hr
May 22, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	3 hr
May 22, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	41 min
May 22, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	63 min
May 22, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	67 min
May 22, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, McLennan	43 min
May 22, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
May 22, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	32 min
May 22, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 22, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	60 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	29 min
May 22, 6:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	116 min
May 22, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	54 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.