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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 26, 2000Somervell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 2:56 AM CST for Somervell County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 26, 2000, 2:56 AM CST (08:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2000, 3:45 AM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Somervell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 3:05 AM CST	Hail 1	Central Portion, TX	Occurred at the Comanche Peak Power Plant.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 25, 11:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 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 260856
SVRFTW
TXC425-260945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
256 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM CST

* AT 256 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF GLEN ROSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GLEN ROSE

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 3227 9787 3217 9774 3223 9762 3236 9765

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, 8:35 PM CST, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 8:35 PM CST, 6 hours 21 minutes before

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

Local storm report, Mar 25, 9:10 PM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes 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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 6:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	58 min
Mar 25, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	63 min
Mar 25, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	55 min
Mar 25, 7:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	53 min
Mar 25, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	48 min
Mar 25, 8:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood	3 hr
Mar 25, 8:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	65 min
Mar 25, 8:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	61 min
Mar 25, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	45 min
Mar 25, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	47 min
Mar 25, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	55 min
Mar 25, 9:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	64 min
Mar 25, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	62 min
Mar 25, 10:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	66 min
Mar 25, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	45 min
Mar 25, 10:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	56 min
Mar 25, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	56 min
Mar 26, 12:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	43 min
Mar 26, 12:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	67 min
Mar 26, 1:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	65 min
Mar 26, 2:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	60 min
Mar 26, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	61 min
Mar 26, 2:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	53 min
Mar 26, 3:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Navarro	60 min
Mar 26, 3:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	46 min
Mar 26, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	48 min
Mar 26, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	47 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.