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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 2, 2000Coryell County, Lampasas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 9:41 PM CDT for Coryell County, Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2000, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Coryell County, TX, Lampasas County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 030244
SVRFTW
TXC099-281-030330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
941 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CORYELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  LAMPASAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 941 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A  
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ADAMSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NORTH OF 
LAMPASAS AND LIKELY CONTAINS HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. 
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GATESVILLE AND FORT GATES

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FORT GATES AROUND 1010 PM CDT
  GATESVILLE AROUND 1015 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3124 9820 3118 9815 3138 9761 3159 9782

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 Apr 2, 9:34 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 9:34 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
934 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

HAVE HAD A SERIES OF ELEVATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHEAST
SECTION OF FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING...WITH HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL
SIZE. THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE STRONG 140 KT SOUTHWEST
JET. COOL AIR AT THE SURFACE WAS A LITTLE SHALLOWER THIS EVENING WHEN
COMPARED TO LAST EVENING. IN THE WARMER AIR ALOFT...THE ATMOSPHERE
REMAINS UNSTABLE WITH A STEEP LAPSE RATE. DIRECTIONAL SHEAR IS ALMOST
NIL BUT SPEED SHEAR IS VERY LARGE. THERE MAY BE SOME SMALL HAIL
IN/NEAR THE METROPLEX LATE THIS EVENING BUT ANY ADDITIONAL SEVERE
SIZE HAIL SHOULD REMAIN IN THE SOUTHEAST SECTION OF THE FORECAST
AREA. HAVE UPDATED THE FORECAST TO INCREASE THE POPS OVER MOST OF THE
REGION...EXCEPT FOR THE EXTREME NW SECTION WHERE THE SKIES HAVE
CLEARED. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS MONDAY WITH
THE WIND BECOMING NW MONDAY MORNING AND BECOMING VERY GUSTY DURING
THE AFTERNOON.

.FTW...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 2, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
554 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

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

0547 PM    KILLEEN                   TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BELL                           NICKEL HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          KILLEEN PD.

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
614 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

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

0545 PM    (GRK)GRAY AAF FT HOOD     TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BELL                           SPOTTERS REPORT DIME
                                          HAIL

0545 PM    KILLEEN                   TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BELL                           SPOTTERS REPORT
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
635 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....
(
0610 PM    2 NW EDDY                 TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   MCLENNAN                       SPOTTER REPORTS NICKEL
                                          HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 7:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
715 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

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

0643 PM    MART                      TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   MCLENNAN                       SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL HAIL

0654 PM    SALADO                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BELL                           PUBLIC REPORT OF
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

0654 PM    BELTON                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   BELL                           SPOTTER REPORT OF
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 7:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
750 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....
i
0737 PM    WESTPHALIA                TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   FALLS                          SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
804 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000

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

0800 PM    MARLIN                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/02/00   FALLS                          QUARTER HAIL JUST SOUTH
                                          OF MARLIN. REPORTED BY
                                          AMATEUR RADIO
                                          SPOTTERS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	42 min
Apr 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	25 min
Apr 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	48 min
Apr 2, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	49 min
Apr 2, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	31 min
Apr 2, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	28 min
Apr 2, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	34 min
Apr 2, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	34 min
Apr 2, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	28 min
Apr 2, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	115 min
Apr 2, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	30 min
Apr 2, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	34 min
Apr 2, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	35 min
Apr 3, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	33 min

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.