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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 20, 2026Freestone County, Leon County, Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 20, 2026, 6:15 AM CDT for Freestone County, Leon County, Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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
Jun 20, 2026, 6:15 AM CDT (11:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

Counties Freestone County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 2026-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 65 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 2026-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 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 Jun 19, 1:20 PM CDT, 16 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 1:20 PM CDT, 16 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:53 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton6 hr
Jun 20, 2:38 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDAnderson2 hr
Jun 20, 2:42 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDFreestone, Leon, Limestone2 hr
Jun 20, 3:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon, Limestone3 hr
Jun 20, 4:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone2 hr
Jun 20, 5:21 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLeon24 min
Jun 20, 9:18 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDLeon, Robertson4 days
Jun 20, 9:48 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Leon, Limestone4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2026Every flash flood warning in 2026

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.