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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 28, 1996Coleman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 6:52 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 28, 1996, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 38 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 23:53 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
May 28, 7:22 PM CDT	Hail 1	Trickham, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 2948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABI 282355
SVRABI
TXC083-290030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
652 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN COLEMAN COUNTY
 
AT 652 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN COLEMAN
COUNTY NEAR SANTA ANNA. LARGE HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 TO 20 MPH.
 
 
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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, May 28, 6:02 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
601 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

0521 PM    ARLINGTON                 TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   TARRANT                        DIME HAIL AT INTERSECTION
                                          OF COOPER STREET AND I-20

0542 PM    GRAND PRARIE              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   DALLAS                         DIME HAIL AT DALLAS NAS
                                          AIRFIELD

0550 PM    GRAND PRARIE              TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   DALLAS

Local storm report, May 28, 6:11 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
610 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

0553 PM    GRAND PRARIE              TX   1 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   DALLAS                         AT DALLAS NBE AIRPORT

0600 PM    8 S GLEN ROSE             TX   1.25 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   SOMERVELL                      HALF DOLLAR HAIL NEAR FARM
                                          ROAD 202

0605 PM    1 W DALLAS                TX   .75 INCH HAIL
05/28/96   DALLAS                         DIME HAIL JUST WEST OF
                                          DOWNTOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	63 min
May 28, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	68 min
May 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	115 min
May 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	55 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	64 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	62 min
May 28, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	56 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coleman	60 min
May 28, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	66 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	61 min
May 28, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	58 min
May 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	34 min
May 28, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	44 min
May 28, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	68 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.