Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 26, 2000, 3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)

Expired

Mar 26, 2000, 4:45 AM CST

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Leon 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 260959
SVRFTW
TXC289-261045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
357 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 AM CST

* AT 357 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THE
  LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR                   
  BUFFALO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.    

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CENTERVILLE AND BUFFALO

DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE WITH THIS SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

LAT...LON 3138 9625 3104 9621 3127 9576 3155 9585

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 26, 3:00 AM CST, 57 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
300 AM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT CONVECTION CONTINUES TO
ENHANCE MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AS LEADING EDGE MOVES FURTHER SOUTH
INTO SOUTH CENTRAL PORTIONS. THIS AREA OF CONVECTION WILL LIKELY
CONTINUE PAST DAYBREAK. THERE WILL BE A FEW FLOOD-RELATED PROBLEMS
ON MAINLY URBAN STREETS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL..BUT ISOLATED
EVENTS LEADS AWAY FROM FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THE MOMENT.

SECOND CONCERN IS ARRIVAL OF DRY LINE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AT A TIME
WHEN A FAVORABLE LEFT QUAD OF A H250 JET SETS UP ACROSS THE REGION.
OLD THUNDERSTORM BOUNDARIES LEFT OVER FROM OVERNIGHT CONVECTION WILL
ENHANCE MESOSCALE FORCING. THERE WILL BE AN EASTWARD SHIFT OF THE
700-300 MB Q-VECTOR FIELDS WITH STRONGEST LIFT CONCENTRATED OVER THE
EASTERN HALF BY LATE TODAY WHERE CAPES WILL APPROACH 3000 J/KG.
DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S...PRECIP WATER VALUES NEAR 1.00 INCH...AND STEEP
MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES SUGGEST REKINDLING OF POTENTIAL SEVERE
CONVECTION ALONG AND IN ADVANCE OF THE DRY LINE ACROSS THE EASTERN
HALF DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS...POSSIBLY INTO THE EARLY EVENING
HOURS EXTREME EAST.  FWC POPS AND TEMPERATURES TO BE ADJUSTED.

DFW 81/49/75 510            ACT 83/52/78 831

.FTW...NONE.                                    ...48...

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.