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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 409, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 12, 1996Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 7:49 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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 12, 1996, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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 12, 8:23 PM CDTTornado F0Amherst, TX
Jun 12, 8:47 PM CDTThunderstorm WindBlossom, 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, 0.8 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 12, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta56 min
Jun 12, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar50 min
Jun 12, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins56 min
Jun 12, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta30 min
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar31 min
Jun 12, 9:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Lamar3 hr
Jun 12, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin66 min
Jun 12, 11:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Lamar4 hr
Jun 13, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin35 min
Jun 13, 3:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin, Lamar3 hr
Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis57 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas60 min
Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell60 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan45 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Throckmorton33 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.