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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 30, 2025Bell County, Falls County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2025, 8:20 PM CDT for Bell County, Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 2 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, 8:20 PM CDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2025, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, 7:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 7:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:20 PM CDT, 2 hours before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 8:02 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 8:06 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 8:17 PM CDT, 3 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 30, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	57 min
Apr 30, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	62 min
Apr 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	54 min
Apr 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson	64 min
Apr 30, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	61 min
Apr 30, 9:30 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	47 hr
Apr 30, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	29 min
Apr 30, 10:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	25 min
May 1, 4:01 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas, Eastland and 22 more	6 hr
May 1, 8:21 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Young	56 hr
May 1, 8:25 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	21 days
May 1, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	56 min
May 1, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	57 min
May 1, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	45 min
May 1, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Lampasas	48 min
May 1, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	61 min
May 1, 4:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	8 hr
May 1, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	64 min
May 1, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	52 min
May 1, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Milam, Robertson	46 min
May 1, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	5 hr
May 1, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Hamilton, Somervell	47 min
May 1, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Milam, Robertson	64 min
May 1, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	20 min
May 1, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	18 min
May 1, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	65 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.