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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 26, 2026Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 2026, 1:34 AM CDT for Dallas 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: Apr 26, 2026, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2026, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 3860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.3
Supercell composite: 17.1

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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 26, 1:20 AM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 1:20 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:16 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:18 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:20 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:24 AM CDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:25 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 1:33 AM CDT, 1 minute 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 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague	51 min
Apr 25, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	57 min
Apr 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	42 min
Apr 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	55 min
Apr 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	17 min
Apr 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	59 min
Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	48 min
Apr 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	40 min
Apr 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Wise	13 min
Apr 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	3 hr
Apr 25, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	50 min
Apr 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	62 min
Apr 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Parker, Wise	42 min
Apr 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Apr 25, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Parker, Tarrant, Wise	55 min
Apr 25, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	18 min
Apr 25, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	60 min
Apr 25, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	60 min
Apr 25, 11:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 25, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	50 min
Apr 25, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	46 min
Apr 25, 11:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 25, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	50 min
Apr 25, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	31 min
Apr 26, 12:06 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 26, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	45 min
Apr 26, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	54 min
Apr 26, 12:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 26, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	64 min
Apr 26, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas	62 min
Apr 26, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant	55 min
Apr 26, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman	64 min
Apr 26, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	20 min
Apr 26, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	21 min
Apr 26, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	30 min
Apr 26, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	47 min
Apr 26, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	65 min
Apr 26, 7:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Hunt	32 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.