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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 26, 2000Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2000, 12:50 AM CST for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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
Feb 26, 2000, 12:50 AM CST (06:50 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Coryell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 2000-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 2000-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 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 260652
SVRFTW
TXC099-260730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1250 AM CST SAT FEB 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 AM

* AT 1250 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF GATESVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GATESVILLE AND FORT GATES

* YOU CAN EXPECT LARGE HAIL UP TO ONE AND THREE QUARTER INCHES AND   
  VERY STRONG WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EeFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST
SATURDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST SATURDAY MORNING FOR
NORTHEAST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3147 9816 3112 9791 3135 9746 3169 9771

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 25, 8:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman51 min
Feb 25, 9:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas63 min
Feb 25, 10:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell43 min
Feb 25, 10:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Rockwall44 min
Feb 25, 10:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant61 min
Feb 25, 10:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton42 min
Feb 25, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson65 min
Feb 25, 10:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque35 min
Feb 25, 11:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas53 min
Feb 25, 11:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis53 min
Feb 25, 11:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill46 min
Feb 26, 12:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Hunt45 min
Feb 26, 12:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis58 min
Feb 26, 12:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins54 min
Feb 26, 12:45 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill60 min
Feb 26, 1:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan41 min
Feb 26, 1:30 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis15 hr
Feb 26, 2:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill, Limestone41 min
Feb 26, 2:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan21 min
Feb 26, 2:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Navarro53 min
Feb 26, 3:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson53 min

Nearby

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

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.