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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 6, 2026Denton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2026, 6:03 PM CDT for Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2026, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2026, 6:59 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Denton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 1243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 Jun 6, 1:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 1:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:13 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:21 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT, 8 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
Jun 6, 12:22 AM CDT	Flood Watch	FWD	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton and 19 more	40 hr
Jun 6, 1:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	116 min
Jun 6, 1:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	5 hr
Jun 6, 2:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls, McLennan	3 hr
Jun 6, 3:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	6 hr
Jun 6, 9:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, Robertson	4 hr
Jun 6, 12:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	12 hr
Jun 6, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	41 min
Jun 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, Milam, Robertson	2 hr
Jun 6, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	49 min
Jun 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	48 min
Jun 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	46 min
Jun 6, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	41 min
Jun 6, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	39 min
Jun 6, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	32 min
Jun 6, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	67 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Parker	63 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Wise	3 hr
Jun 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	62 min
Jun 6, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	41 min
Jun 6, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	47 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	39 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	67 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Tarrant	65 min
Jun 6, 6:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	2 hr

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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.