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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 1996Fisher County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 8:04 PM CDT for Fisher County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
May 5, 1996, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Fisher County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 180 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 5, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan62 min
May 5, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Taylor65 min
May 5, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan, Taylor62 min
May 5, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell69 min
May 5, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones60 min
May 5, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Shackelford66 min
May 5, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan, Taylor60 min
May 5, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman56 min
May 5, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan60 min
May 5, 10:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland57 min
May 5, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton51 min
May 5, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung65 min
May 5, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland45 min
May 6, 1:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker59 min
May 6, 1:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton56 min
May 6, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke62 min
May 6, 7:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas61 min
May 6, 10:43 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell2 hr
May 6, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.