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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 1996Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1996, 11:08 PM CST for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
Apr 3, 1996, 11:08 PM CST (05:08 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1996, 12:00 AM CST
In force
52 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 05:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 662 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 1996-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Apr 3, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford30 min
Apr 3, 7:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young55 min
Apr 3, 8:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack46 min
Apr 3, 10:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague58 min
Apr 3, 11:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke47 min
Apr 4, 12:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton51 min
Apr 4, 1:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin60 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.