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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 22, 1996Jack County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 4:42 AM CDT for Jack County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 22, 1996, 4:42 AM CDT (09:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1996, 5:45 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jack County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:45 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 22, 5:08 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Graham, 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 1644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 12.0

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The text

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

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 22, 12:15 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1205 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996

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

0750 PM    BOWIE                     TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0750 PM    3 W OLNEY                 TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   YOUNG

0825 PM    SUNSET                    TX   2.5 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0838 PM    1 E BOWIE                 TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0840 PM    BOWIE                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0840 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   COOKE

0900 PM    5 S MONTAGUE              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE                       HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE 4
                                          INCHES DEEP

0920 PM    2 S GAINESVILLE           TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   COOKE

0935 PM    WHITESBORO                TX   4 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

0940 PM    GORDONVILLE               TX   .88 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

0945 PM    2 E MONTAGUE              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0953 PM    ST JO                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

1007 PM    4 W DENISON               TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   GRAYSON

1010 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   COOKE

1013 PM    POTTSBORO                 TX   4.5 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton, Young	51 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	58 min
Apr 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	68 min
Apr 21, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	42 min
Apr 21, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	63 min
Apr 21, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	56 min
Apr 21, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	67 min
Apr 21, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	66 min
Apr 21, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	57 min
Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	57 min
Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	57 min
Apr 21, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	56 min
Apr 21, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	59 min
Apr 22, 12:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Apr 22, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Apr 22, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	63 min
Apr 22, 1:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	63 min
Apr 22, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	57 min
Apr 22, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	59 min
Apr 22, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	59 min
Apr 22, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	57 min
Apr 22, 2:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Taylor	57 min
Apr 22, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	66 min
Apr 22, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Shackelford	69 min
Apr 22, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Throckmorton, Young	56 min
Apr 22, 5:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	55 min
Apr 22, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	55 min
Apr 22, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	55 min
Apr 22, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	69 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.