Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 26, 2000, 2:14 AM CST (08:14 UTC)

Expired

Mar 26, 2000, 3:15 AM CST

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Ellis County, TX, Hill County, TX, Johnson County, 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.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 260814
SVRFTW
TXC139-217-251-260915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
214 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  HILL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 214 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM RED OAK...TO GRANDVIEW...TO    
  BLUM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
   
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WAXAHACHIE...RED OAK...PALMER...  
  OAK LEAF...MAYPEARL...ITALY...HILLSBORO...GRANDVIEW AND ENNIS.

DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE WITH THESE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. STREETS MAY ALSO BECOME FLOODED. AVOID^ THESE AREAS AND 
DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

LAT...LON 3220 9743 3198 9727 3186 9693 3210 9691
          3232 9649 3255 9689

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 25, 8:35 PM CST, 5 hours 39 minutes earlier.

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

SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY
EAST ACROSS CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. CONVECTION IS
ENHANCED BY OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM PREVIOUS CONVECTION. EXPECT
ADDITIONAL TRAINING OF STORMS THROUGH 06Z...AS SHORT WAVE
ACROSS WEST TEXAS APPROACHES.

.FTW...NONE.

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In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
910 PM CST SAT MAR 25 2000

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

0840 PM    TOLAR                     TX   60 MPH TSTM GUST
03/25/00   HOOD                           SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          HIGH WINDS

0855 PM    GLEN ROSE                 TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   SOMERVELL                      REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0857 PM    3 N GLEN ROSE             TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
03/25/00   SOMERVELL                      HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL HAIL COVERING
                                          THE GROUND

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.