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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 28, 1996Coleman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 4:37 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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 28, 1996, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Coleman County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Special weather statement, May 28, 12:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson63 min
May 28, 4:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson115 min
May 28, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant55 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas64 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque62 min
May 28, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell56 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDColeman60 min
May 28, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan66 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown61 min
May 28, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill58 min
May 28, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas34 min
May 28, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque44 min
May 28, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin68 min
May 28, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.