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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 18, 2025Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 2025, 8:43 PM CDT for Wise 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
May 18, 2025, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 55 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2484 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.1
Supercell composite
8.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 7:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFWDPalo Pinto38 min
May 18, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise60 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto34 min
May 18, 8:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFWDHood, Palo Pinto, Parker66 min
May 18, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatFWDErath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker79 min
May 18, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant21 min
May 18, 9:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton40 min
May 18, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton67 min
May 18, 9:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton3 hr
May 18, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin, Denton39 min
May 18, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin13 min
May 18, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin18 min
May 18, 11:32 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton28 hr
May 19, 8:17 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDWise30 hr
May 19, 8:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLampasas34 min
May 19, 9:03 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCoryell27 min
May 19, 9:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMcLennan31 min
May 19, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill, Johnson28 min
May 19, 9:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro25 min
May 19, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung26 min
May 19, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague57 min
May 19, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack47 min
May 19, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDMontague63 min
May 19, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson16 min
May 19, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Montague, Wise44 min
May 19, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDCooke, Montague40 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDJack, Montague54 min
May 19, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDCooke, Montague65 min
May 19, 6:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMontague3 hr
May 19, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Montague, Wise57 min
May 19, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDCooke, Montague, Wise56 min

Nearby

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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.