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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1996Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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 3, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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
Jun 3, 11:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 61Ivan, 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1386 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Jun 3, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Throckmorton68 min
Jun 3, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHaskell46 min
Jun 3, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung56 min
Jun 3, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones26 min
Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford69 min
Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher69 min
Jun 3, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDThrockmorton68 min
Jun 3, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones63 min
Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan, Taylor69 min
Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan69 min
Jun 3, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung64 min
Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens61 min
Jun 3, 10:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford43 min
Jun 3, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland60 min
Jun 3, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell69 min
Jun 3, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker66 min
Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath66 min
Jun 3, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell60 min
Jun 3, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland33 min
Jun 4, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton, Johnson58 min
Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrown117 min
Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown117 min
Jun 4, 12:45 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown30 min
Jun 4, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche38 min
Jun 4, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills61 min
Jun 4, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton34 min
Jun 4, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Lampasas59 min
Jun 4, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton39 min
Jun 4, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas68 min
Jun 4, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell49 min
Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls47 min
Jun 4, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam45 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.