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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 24, 1996Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1996, 4:03 PM CST for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
Mar 24, 1996, 4:03 PM CST (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1996, 5:00 PM CST
In force
57 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 22:05 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
Mar 24, 4:45 PM CSTHail 1Blossom, 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, 10.1 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 467 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 12:00Z on 1996-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-363 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
280 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
Mar 24, 12:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Montague55 min
Mar 24, 12:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise65 min
Mar 24, 1:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke62 min
Mar 24, 1:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Somervell61 min
Mar 24, 1:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton61 min
Mar 24, 1:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker66 min
Mar 24, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton61 min
Mar 24, 1:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant67 min
Mar 24, 2:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill66 min
Mar 24, 2:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson62 min
Mar 24, 2:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton60 min
Mar 24, 2:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Navarro60 min
Mar 24, 2:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant31 min
Mar 24, 3:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin69 min
Mar 24, 3:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill65 min
Mar 24, 3:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas66 min
Mar 24, 3:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro63 min
Mar 24, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall65 min
Mar 24, 4:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins65 min
Mar 24, 4:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro60 min
Mar 24, 4:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill69 min
Mar 24, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt61 min
Mar 24, 5:49 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDNavarro56 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.