Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1996, 4:22 PM CDT for Hunt County, Rockwall County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
- Jun 15, 1996, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hunt County, TX, Rockwall County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 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
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 25 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, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 68 min |
| Jun 15, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 59 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.