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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 8, 1992Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1992, 11:08 PM CST for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 1992, 11:08 PM CST (05:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 1992, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Parker County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 1010 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:39 PM CST, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 8, 8:12 PM CST, 2 hours 56 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
Mar 8, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer, Clay, Wichita	56 min
Mar 8, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	56 min
Mar 8, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	69 min
Mar 8, 8:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Taylor	69 min
Mar 8, 9:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	68 min
Mar 8, 9:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	65 min
Mar 8, 9:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	59 min
Mar 8, 10:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	60 min
Mar 9, 6:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	67 min
Mar 9, 6:43 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, McLennan	62 min
Mar 9, 7:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	37 min
Mar 9, 8:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Wood	4 hr
Mar 9, 8:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt	4 hr
Mar 9, 8:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	60 min
Mar 9, 12:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Camp, Franklin, Titus	5 hr
Mar 9, 12:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Morris, Upshur	5 hr

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.