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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 3:08 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- Jun 2, 1996, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:07 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Loraine, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2074 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
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, Jun 2, 11:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ091>095-098>107-113>123-127>135-139>148-154>162-174-175-030000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1150 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. A FEW CITIES INCLUDED IN THE RISK AREA ARE ABILENE...BROWNWOOD...MINERAL WELLS...WACO...TEMPLE... KILLEEN...SHERMAN...PARIS AND THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINED IN PLACE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AT MIDDAY. A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT STRETCHED ACROSS THE REGION FROM LONGVIEW TO HILLSBORO TO NEAR ABILENE. MEANWHILE...A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WAS MOVING INTO WEST TEXAS. THE COMBINATION OF THESE FEATURES WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Mitchell, Nolan | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 4:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Nolan | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones, Taylor | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 63 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.