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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 2024Denton County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 30, 2024, 1:43 PM CDT for Denton County, Wise 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 30, 2024, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Denton County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 2381 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.4

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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, 11:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 11:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 12:55 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 11:33 AM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 12:58 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 1:08 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 1:13 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 30, 1:16 PM CDT, 27 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 29, 8:51 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	19 hr
May 30, 8:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Young	29 min
May 30, 8:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	38 min
May 30, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	8 days
May 30, 8:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	52 hr
May 30, 10:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	35 min
May 30, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	33 min
May 30, 10:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	4 hr
May 30, 10:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	6 hr
May 30, 11:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
May 30, 11:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Grayson	3 hr
May 30, 11:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	27 min
May 30, 11:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas	5 hr
May 30, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	33 min
May 30, 12:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	2 hr
May 30, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	32 min
May 30, 1:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
May 30, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	37 min
May 30, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	32 min
May 30, 1:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	29 min
May 30, 1:31 PM CDT	Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	22 hr
May 30, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman	50 min
May 30, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson	59 min
May 30, 2:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
May 30, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Johnson, Parker	2 hr
May 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Somervell	55 min
May 30, 2:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	3 hr
May 30, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	63 min
May 30, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	55 min
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	14 hr
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	64 hr
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone	64 hr
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell	29 hr
May 30, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	6 days
May 30, 3:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
May 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman	3 hr
May 30, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan, Navarro	3 hr
May 30, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	61 min
May 30, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, McLennan	47 min
May 30, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	2 hr
May 30, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, Robertson	68 min
May 30, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	45 min
May 30, 5:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	3 hr
May 30, 5:35 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	16 hr
May 30, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	30 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	61 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.