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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 528, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 14, 1996Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
Sep 14, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Comanche County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 14, 10:30 PM CDTHail 1Duster, TX
Sep 14, 10:35 PM CDTTornado F1De Leon, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 1996-09-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 765 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 1996-09-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.8

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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
Sep 14, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland4 hr
Sep 15, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood25 min
Sep 15, 1:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche, Eastland, Erath5 hr
Sep 15, 2:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens4 hr
Sep 15, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDYoung3 hr
Sep 15, 7:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every 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.