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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 26, 2000Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 5:43 PM CST for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 26, 2000, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bell County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 26, 5:59 PM CSTHail 1.5Youngsport, TX
Mar 26, 6:05 PM CSTHail 2.75Salado, TX
Mar 26, 6:05 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 61 ESalado, TXTractor trailer rigs were blown off I-35.
Mar 26, 6:15 PM CSTThunderstorm WindHeidenheimer, TXHouses were damaged by high winds, and a mobile home was destroyed.

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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 171 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-345 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 26, 5:15 PM CST, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 5:15 PM CST, 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

.AVIATION DISCUSSION...SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP...
MAINLY IN THE SOUTH AND WEST.  ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE
THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.  THEREFORE...HAVE GONE WITH A TEMPO
GROUP FOR TSRA THROUGH 1000 PM.  THERE ARE NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES FROM
YESTERDAYS CONVECTION AND A DRYLINE TO THE WEST.  ONCE ALL OF THIS
PASSES LATE TONIGHT...SKIES WILL CLEAR.  OUTSIDE OF ANY
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY...VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED.  81

330 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000
VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS AFTERNOON...SHOWS AN ENHANCED CUMULUS
FIELD FROM JUNCTION...TO SAN SABA...TO MERIDIAN...TO FORT WORTH.
SEVERAL OTHER BOUNDARIES CAN ALSO BE SEEN...NOTABLY THE ONE FROM
ARDMORE TO JACKSBORO WHERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORMING. WITH THE
DRYLINE HANGING BACK WEST...WILL NEED TO KEEP LOW POPS IN THE
WESTERN ZONES...AND CHANCE CATEGORY ACROSS THE REST OF THE FORECAST
AREA FOR TONIGHT.  THE DRYLINE SHOULD MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL PART OF
NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT...WITH A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO THE REGION LATE
TONIGHT. AFTER TONIGHT...SHOULD SEE ANOTHER CHANCE OF RAIN/
THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON INTO TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE NEXT UPPER
LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES.  SHOULD SEE A RESPITE WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY...WITH ANOTHER CHANCE BY FRIDAY. #58

DFW 56/77/53/83 3003    ACT 56/79/50/82 3003

.FTW...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 26, 11:55 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 26, 4:11 PM CST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-270015-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
411 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT.

A DRYLINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR MUNDAY TO NEAR JUNCTION LATE
THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL
FORM ALONG THE DRYLINE AS IT MOVES INTO NORTH TEXAS BEFORE SUNSET.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG A CONVERGENCE ZONE POSITIONED
FROM NORTH OF SHERMAN TO MINERAL WELLS.  ONCE DEVELOPED...THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE
EVENING.  A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH THROUGH OKLAHOMA WILL SPREAD A
SECOND ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION AFTER 7 PM.
THESE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH NORTH TEXAS AND MAY STILL
BE ON GOING PAST MIDNIGHT SOUTH OF AN ATHENS TO GOLDTHWAITE LINE.

THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DOWN BURST
WINDS.  BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY CAUSE LOCALIZE FLOODING PROBLEMS
WHERE HEAVY RAINS FELL LAST NIGHT.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES AND STORM SPOTTERS NORTH AND WEST
OF A GREENVILLE TO FORT WORTH TO KILLEEN LINE MAY BE ACTIVATED
BEFORE 6 PM.  OTHER LOCATIONS MAY BE ACTIVATED AFTER 8 PM TONIGHT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 6:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood58 min
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

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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.