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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 18, 1996Van Zandt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 1996, 2:10 AM CST for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
Mar 18, 1996, 2:10 AM CST (08:10 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 1996, 3:15 AM CST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 18, 2:15 AM CSTHail 1Canton, 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 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
Mar 17, 11:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton55 min
Mar 18, 12:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin31 min
Mar 18, 1:31 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar59 min
Mar 18, 2:59 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon61 min
Mar 18, 3:03 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson57 min
Mar 18, 3:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.