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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 30, 20254 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jan 30, 2025, 4:40 AM CST 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: Jan 30, 2025, 4:40 AM CST (10:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 30, 2025, 8:00 AM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bosque County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Hill County, TX, Johnson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 Jan 30, 3:12 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 3:12 AM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 3:21 AM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 30, 3:40 AM CST, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 3:45 AM CST, 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 3:59 AM CST, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 4:09 AM CST, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 4:10 AM CST, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 4:22 AM CST, 18 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
Jan 29, 7:33 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 29, 8:21 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Jan 29, 8:34 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	3 hr
Jan 29, 8:43 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 29, 9:42 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Rockwall	2 hr
Jan 29, 10:22 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	47 hr
Jan 29, 11:08 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	6 hr
Jan 29, 11:13 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	6 hr
Jan 29, 11:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	37 min
Jan 30, 12:04 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Kaufman, Rockwall	5 hr
Jan 30, 1:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	31 min
Jan 30, 1:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	30 min
Jan 30, 1:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath	33 min
Jan 30, 2:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath, Hood	31 min
Jan 30, 2:44 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Navarro	54 hr
Jan 30, 2:46 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	67 hr
Jan 30, 2:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Parker, Tarrant	37 min
Jan 30, 4:50 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant	3 hr
Jan 30, 5:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	33 min
Jan 30, 5:25 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, Falls	65 min
Jan 30, 7:24 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Jan 30, 7:31 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	11 hr
Jan 30, 7:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	45 min
Jan 30, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	38 min
Jan 30, 7:56 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis	3 hr
Jan 30, 8:02 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant	2 hr
Jan 30, 8:19 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	116 min
Jan 30, 8:28 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Jack, Montague, Wise, Young	92 min
Jan 30, 8:34 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	21 hr
Jan 30, 9:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	3 hr
Jan 30, 9:17 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	6 days

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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.