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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 15, 1996Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 4:07 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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 15, 1996, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 15, 4:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Muenster, 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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.

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 15, 10:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

TXZ091>095-098>107-113>123-127>135-139>148-154>164-174-175-160100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1055 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY EVENING
FOR ALL OF NORTH TEXAS.  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABILENE...
SHERMAN...PARIS...DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX...WACO.

THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS CONTINUES TO BE VERY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE.  AFTERNOON HEATING COMBINED WITH SURFACE BOUNDARIES FROM
PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALLOW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP.
A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS.
THE MID LEVEL WINDS REMAIN WEAK...SO THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOW
MOVING WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR VERY HEAVY RAINFALL.

THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS.  DUE TO THE WEAK WIND FIELD...TORNADOES ARE UNLIKELY THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOnTTER GROUPS SHOULD
MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR
POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.  LISTEN TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	48 min
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	40 min
Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	50 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	59 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	68 min
Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	67 min
Jun 15, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	65 min
Jun 15, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	117 min
Jun 15, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	69 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	64 min
Jun 15, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.