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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 25, 2000Hood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2000, 6:32 PM CST for Hood County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 2000, 6:32 PM CST (00:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hood County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 25, 6:47 PM CSTHail 1.75Granbury, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 25, 3:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 887 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 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 260034
SVRFTW
TXC221-260130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
632 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HOOD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CST

* AT 632 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OAK TRAIL SHORES...MOVING EAST ATP 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE OAK TRAIL SHORES AND GRANBURY.

* HAIL UP TO HALF DOLLAR SIZE AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH
  THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3260 9784 3244 9793 3240 9762 3256 9763

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 6:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson63 min
Mar 25, 7:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto55 min
Mar 25, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath53 min
Mar 25, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson48 min
Mar 25, 8:04 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHood3 hr
Mar 25, 8:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood65 min
Mar 25, 8:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis61 min
Mar 25, 8:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell45 min
Mar 25, 8:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson47 min
Mar 25, 9:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson55 min
Mar 25, 9:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill64 min
Mar 25, 9:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro62 min
Mar 25, 10:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone66 min
Mar 25, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung45 min
Mar 25, 10:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack56 min
Mar 25, 11:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto56 min
Mar 26, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant43 min
Mar 26, 12:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker67 min
Mar 26, 1:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant65 min
Mar 26, 2:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro60 min
Mar 26, 2:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill, Johnson61 min
Mar 26, 2:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood53 min
Mar 26, 2:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSomervell49 min
Mar 26, 3:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Navarro60 min
Mar 26, 3:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone46 min
Mar 26, 3:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon48 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell47 min

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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.