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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 30, 2025Freestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2025, 5:28 PM CDT for Freestone County, Texas. It was in force for 6 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: Apr 30, 2025, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Freestone County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 373 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 8.2

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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 Apr 30, 1:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 1:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 4:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 4:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 4:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 4:30 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:06 PM CDT, 22 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
Apr 29, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	67 min
Apr 29, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	73 min
Apr 29, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	28 min
Apr 29, 9:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	4 hr
Apr 30, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	56 min
Apr 30, 6:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	58 min
Apr 30, 7:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Stephens, Young	50 min
Apr 30, 7:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	5 hr
Apr 30, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Jack, Montague, Wise	60 min
Apr 30, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Wise	51 min
Apr 30, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	23 hr
Apr 30, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	40 hr
Apr 30, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	26 hr
Apr 30, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	40 hr
Apr 30, 8:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	48 hr
Apr 30, 9:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	55 min
Apr 30, 9:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	7 hr
Apr 30, 9:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	47 hr
Apr 30, 9:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	47 hr
Apr 30, 10:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	3 hr
Apr 30, 10:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	26 min
Apr 30, 10:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	5 hr
Apr 30, 10:56 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	34 min
Apr 30, 11:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	8 min
Apr 30, 11:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	6 hr
Apr 30, 11:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Parker	2 hr
Apr 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Tarrant	5 hr
Apr 30, 12:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	2 hr
Apr 30, 12:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	4 hr
Apr 30, 12:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	3 hr
Apr 30, 12:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill	26 min
Apr 30, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	48 min
Apr 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	3 hr
Apr 30, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	40 min
Apr 30, 2:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	20 hr
Apr 30, 2:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	13 days
Apr 30, 2:29 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	15 hr
Apr 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Hill, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	3 hr
Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson	36 min
Apr 30, 5:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	McLennan	96 min
Apr 30, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	57 min
Apr 30, 5:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	118 min
Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Hill	54 min
Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	63 min
Apr 30, 6:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	5 hr
Apr 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Falls, McLennan	42 min
Apr 30, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	60 min
Apr 30, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, McLennan	48 min
Apr 30, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson	62 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.