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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1996Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 7:08 AM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 30, 1996, 7:08 AM CDT (12:08 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 8:15 AM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lamar County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 324 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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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 30, 2:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan2 hr
May 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman2 hr
May 29, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor56 min
May 29, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman64 min
May 29, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown66 min
May 29, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman39 min
May 29, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown34 min
May 29, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills55 min
May 29, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath44 min
May 30, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas66 min
May 30, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton61 min
May 30, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque59 min
May 30, 12:38 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell37 min
May 30, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan60 min
May 30, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell69 min
May 30, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill64 min
May 30, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell52 min
May 30, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton55 min
May 30, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones55 min
May 30, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones34 min
May 30, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford2 hr
May 30, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford49 min
May 30, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Throckmorton, Young58 min
May 30, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones2 hr
May 30, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford66 min
May 30, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens62 min
May 30, 5:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDYoung2 hr
May 30, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung2 hr
May 30, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan58 min
May 30, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland56 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman64 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.