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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1986Brown County, Callahan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1986, 1:40 PM CDT for Brown County, Callahan County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1986, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1986, 2:40 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2479 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 163 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
2479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Stonewall75 min
May 7, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor60 min
May 7, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Stonewall65 min
May 7, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDScurry65 min
May 7, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall62 min
May 7, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall62 min
May 8, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche62 min
May 8, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland64 min
May 8, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche33 min
May 8, 2:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown, Coleman60 min
May 8, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland59 min
May 8, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 8, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche56 min
May 8, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Wichita60 min
May 8, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 8, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche10 min
May 8, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland60 min
May 8, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton60 min
May 8, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque50 min
May 8, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 8, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson56 min
May 8, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque60 min
May 8, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath52 min
May 8, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 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.