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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 12, 1996Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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
Apr 12, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1996-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 121 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 1996-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -305 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-333 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.8

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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
Apr 12, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis30 min
Apr 12, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone58 min
Apr 12, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins54 min
Apr 12, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt62 min
Apr 12, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan29 min
Apr 12, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson55 min
Apr 12, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam52 min
Apr 12, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMilam41 min
Apr 12, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone65 min
Apr 12, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Limestone61 min
Apr 12, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLimestone36 min
Apr 12, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson48 min
Apr 12, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson48 min
Apr 12, 10:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDRobertson28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.