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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 1996Throckmorton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
May 5, 1996, 10:24 PM CDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Throckmorton County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 11:05 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 57Elbert, 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 282 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2468 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
6.4

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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, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher56 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, 10:40 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

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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.