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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 26, 2025Cooke County, Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2025, 12:25 AM CDT for Cooke County, Montague 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 26, 2025, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2025, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Cooke County, TX, Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2025-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2155 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
2155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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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 25, 2:10 PM CDT, 10 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:10 PM CDT, 10 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:04 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas24 hr
May 25, 8:04 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton3 days
May 25, 8:04 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas49 hr
May 25, 11:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague28 min
May 25, 11:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens25 min
May 25, 11:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens35 min
May 26, 12:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague26 min
May 26, 12:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens30 min
May 26, 12:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung35 min
May 26, 12:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton35 min
May 26, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Wise58 min
May 26, 1:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens, Young48 min
May 26, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall33 min
May 26, 2:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise3 hr
May 26, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson and 5 more67 min
May 26, 2:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Tarrant3 hr
May 26, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell and 1 more67 min
May 26, 3:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Henderson, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro and 1 more27 min
May 26, 4:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill, Johnson, Somervell64 min
May 26, 5:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill, Limestone, McLennan57 min
May 26, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Van Zandt46 min
May 26, 6:04 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas9 hr
May 26, 6:04 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCollin9 hr
May 26, 7:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHunt52 hr
May 26, 7:51 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall51 hr
May 26, 8:58 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro21 days
May 26, 11:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto47 min
May 26, 12:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Palo Pinto, Parker21 min
May 26, 1:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland26 min
May 26, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Stephens37 min
May 26, 1:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker36 min
May 26, 1:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker52 min
May 26, 2:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung37 min
May 26, 3:41 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDallas, Parker, Tarrant3 hr
May 26, 3:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack, Young33 min
May 26, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young20 min
May 26, 4:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack24 min
May 26, 4:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson34 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDParker, Tarrant2 hr
May 26, 5:21 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDJack, Wise3 hr
May 26, 5:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant27 min
May 26, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Johnson, Tarrant40 min
May 26, 6:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack, Wise2 hr
May 26, 6:38 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant2 hr
May 26, 6:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill34 min
May 26, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton33 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDWise31 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.