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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 9, 1986Scurry County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1986, 5:10 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1986, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1986, 6:10 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Scurry 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 271 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 1986-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1043 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 1986-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 8, 7:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDSomervell2 hr
May 8, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 8, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis68 min
May 8, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque60 min
May 8, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown60 min
May 8, 8:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque2 hr
May 8, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro45 min
May 8, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson57 min
May 9, 1:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson3 hr
May 9, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Nolan65 min
May 9, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Jones57 min
May 9, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton80 min
May 9, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher65 min
May 9, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDClay75 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.