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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 21, 1996Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 21, 6:46 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Loving, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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

Local storm report, Apr 21, 5:47 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
541 PM CDT SUN APR 21 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0322 PM    10 W THROCKMORTON         TX   .88 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   THROCKMORTON                   NICKEL HAIL ON HWY 22 WEST
                                          OF THROCKMORTON

0416 PM    15 SW THROCKMORTON        TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   THROCKMORTON                   BASEBALL HAIL 12 MILES
                                          WEST OF HWY 283

0429 PM    12 E HASKELL              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   HASKELL                        DIME HAIL

0431 PM    LAKE STAMFORD             TX   .88 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   HASKELL                        NICKEL HAIL AT PAINT CREEK
                                          MARINA

0511 PM    HASKELL                   TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   HASKELL                        GOLFBALL HAIL AT KVRP
                                          RADIO STATION IN HASKELL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 20, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	68 min
Apr 21, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton	46 min
Apr 21, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones, Taylor	58 min
Apr 21, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jones, Taylor	64 min
Apr 21, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Shackelford	67 min
Apr 21, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	59 min
Apr 21, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton	61 min
Apr 21, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	59 min
Apr 21, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Shackelford	64 min
Apr 21, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	69 min
Apr 21, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton	63 min
Apr 21, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	60 min
Apr 21, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton	62 min
Apr 21, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.