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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 25, 2000Palo Pinto County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 5:25 PM CST for Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2000, 5:25 PM CST (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Palo Pinto County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 25, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 713 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 252325
SVRFTW
TXC363-260015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
525 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PALO PINTO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 525 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR             
  DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF GRAFORD. ANOTHER    
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF 
  POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE.  BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE AND GRAFORD.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GRAFORD AROUND 615 PM CST.

* HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY 
  WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3301 9842 3295 9841 3294 9855 3279 9855
          3288 9813 3301 9812

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.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 25, 3:25 PM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 3:25 PM CST, 2 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FORMING ALONG AN EAST-WEST BOUNDARY
BETWEEN THE FORT WORTH AND SNYDER. THESE STORMS SHOULD SLIDE EAST
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.  COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY...SOUTHEAST OF A MCALESTER
...TO ARDMORE...WICHITA FALLS LINE...WILL MOVE ONLY SLIGHTLY FARTHER
SOUTH BEFORE BECOMING STATIONARY.  SURFACE TROUGH IS PROGGED TO
PUSH EAST INTO NORTH TEXAS TOMORROW...TEMPORARILY ENDING THE RAIN
CHANCES AS DRIER...SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR FILTERS IN.

IN THE EXTENDED FORECAST...MAY SEE ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
TUESDAY AS THE NEXT SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS TnHE REGION. #58

DFW 63/83/57/80 6311   ACT 65/85/57/82 4311

.FTW...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:37 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-252100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1137 AM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A COLD FRONT...EXTENDING FROM NEAR MCALESTER OKLAHOMA TO SOUTH OF
WICHITA FALLS...WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS AND STALL ACROSS THE
NORTHERN SECTION TONIGHT.  AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY LIFT ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. THE AIR
MASS AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY IS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE...AND WILL BE
ABLE TO SUPPORT HEAVY PRECIPITATION THUNDERSTORMS.  WET BULB ZERO
LEVELS WILL BE AROUND 10500 FEET AND SURFACE CAPE VALUES WILL BE
NEAR 3000 JOULES PER KILOGRAM.  THE STRONG INSTABILITIES INDICATE
THAT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN
SEVERE WEATHER THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ZEMERGENCY MANAGERS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS CAN EXPECT ACTIVATION ANY TIME
THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING.

Local storm report, Mar 25, 5:25 PM CST, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...LATE REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
512 PM CST FRI MAR 17 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....

0413 PM    3 NW GUNSIGHT             TX   0.75 INCH HAIL 03/25/00
STEPHENS

0445 PM    TIN TOP                   TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   PARKER

0456 PM    GRAHAM                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY STATE
                                          TROOPER

0505 PM    TIN TOP                   TX   2.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   PARKER                         REPORTED BY HAM

0510 PM    GRAFORD                   TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   PALO_PINTO                     REPORTED BY HAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	60 min
Mar 25, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	68 min
Mar 25, 4:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	50 min
Mar 25, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	60 min
Mar 25, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	66 min
Mar 25, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	60 min
Mar 25, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	66 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.