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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 2, 2025Bosque County, Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2025, 2:18 PM CDT for Bosque County, Hill 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 2, 2025, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2025, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Bosque County, TX, Hill County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 347 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 541 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2025-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 12:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 7:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 hr
May 1, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Milam73 min
May 1, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam33 min
May 1, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas61 min
May 1, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas48 min
May 1, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas64 min
May 1, 10:32 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell88 min
May 1, 11:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell30 min
May 1, 11:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas2 hr
May 2, 3:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague57 min
May 2, 4:13 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke, Montague47 min
May 2, 4:18 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke, Montague2 hr
May 2, 11:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker43 min
May 2, 12:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHood29 min
May 2, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Ellis, Hill, McLennan57 min
May 2, 2:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro59 min
May 2, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Falls, Lampasas, McLennan32 min
May 2, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone, Navarro64 min
May 2, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Falls, McLennan42 min
May 2, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon, Milam, Robertson59 min
May 2, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon46 min
May 2, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon15 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.