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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 250, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 30, 2000Crane County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Crane County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 5297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 30, 9:50 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 9:50 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
950 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

WILL ISSUE A QUICK UPDATE TO ADJUST POPS AND TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
FLASH FLOOD WATCH OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA.  APPEARS AS
IF SPEED MAX IS DIPPING SOUTHWARD AND HELPING THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF
THE SQUALL LINE TO INTENSIFY.  STORMS ORIENTATION IS BECOMING NEARLY
PARALLEL TO THE UPPER FLOW...THEREFORE...REDEVELOPMENT OVER THE SAME
AREA IS LIKELY OVERNIGHT.  ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRAIGHT
LINE WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT THE REST OF TONIGHT.

.FTW...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING NORTH AND WEST OF A
BONHAM...TERRELL...HILLSBORO...GOLDTHWAITE LINE. CA[UTION ON AREA
LAKES TONIGHT WESTERN 2/3.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 30, 4:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-010500-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT FOR NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...GENERALLY
NORTHWEST OF A SHERMAN TO DALLAS TO CLEBURNE TO COMANCHE LINE.  THE
MODERATE RISK INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BOWIE...GAINESVILLE...DECATUR...
DENTON...BRECKENRIDGE...JACKSBORO...GRAHAM...WEATHERFORD...
EASTLAND...STEPHENVILLE...GRANBURY...AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH
METROPLEX.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT...EAST OF THE MODERATE RISK...AND GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE
FROM PARIS...TO CORSICANA...TO WACO...TO TEMPLE.  THE SLIGHT RISK
INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...BONHAM...MCKINNEY...GREENVILLE...
TERRELL...WAXAHACHIE...HILLSBORO...MERIDIAN...HAMILTON...LAMPASAS...
AND THE WACO/TEMPLE/KILLEEN METRO AREA.

THE MAIN THREATS FROM TODAY'S STORMS WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.  A FEW SUPERCELL TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA.  HEAVY
RAIN MAY BECOME A THREAT BY TONIGHT OVER NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH
TEXAS...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA MONDAY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS WEST TEXAS...AND
TORNADO AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR SOME
AREAS.  TO THE EAST OF THIS AREA...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING FROM
VERNON SOUTHWARD TO THROCKMORTON.  THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO
DEVELOP...INTENSIFY...AND BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD THROUGH THE EVENING
WITH SOME STORMS BECOMING SEVERE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION...AND RESIDENTS OF NORTH
TEXAS PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE
MODERATE RISK AREA...SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER
DEVELOPMENTS.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS...THERE IS A WINDw
ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL CREATE
HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS ON LAKES AND FOR HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST-
WEST ORIENTED ROADS.

Local storm report, Apr 30, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
817 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

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

0540 PM    2 W OLNEY                 TX   TORNADO
04/30/00   YOUNG                          REPORT OF ONE-HALF MILE
                                          WIDE TORNADO WEST OF
                                          OLNEY

0715 PM    OLNEY                     TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/00   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY GRAHAM FIRE
                                          DEPT.

0730 PM    1 S NEWCASTLE             TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
04/30/00   YOUNG                          SPOTTER REPORT OF HALF
                                          DOLLAR HAIL

0731 PM    1 NNE SOUTH BEND          TX   TORNADO
04/30/00   YOUNG                          SPOTTER REPORTED
                   O                       TORNADO ON THE GROUND

Local storm report, Apr 30, 8:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
822 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

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

0750 PM    9 NW JACKSBORO            TX   FLOOD
04/30/00   JACK                           SHERIFF'S OFFICE
                                          REPORTED HIGH WATER
                                          OVER THE ROAD ON FARM
                                          ROAD 2190

0815 PM    3 W JACKSBORO             TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/30/00   JACK                           JACKSBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT                                            REPORTED HIGH WINDS HAVE                                             DOWNED NUMEROUS LARGE                                                TREES OVER THE ROADWAY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 9:22 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
922 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

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

0802 PM    3 S GRAHAM                TX   WIND DAMAGE
04/30/00   YOUNG                          ROOF BLOWN OFF A MOBILE
                                          HOME.

0820 PM    GRAHAM                    TX   FLOOD
04/30/00   YOUNG                          MAJOR STREET FLOODING
                                          REPORTED BY GRAHAM FIRE
                                          DEPARTMENT

0855 PM    13 SW GRAFORD             TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/30/00   PALO_PINTO                     QUARTER HAIL REPORTED
                                          AT POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE
                                          DAM

0906 PM    10 SSE RINGGOLD           TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
04/30/00   MONTAGUE                       NICKEL HAIL REPORTED ON
                                          HWY 81 BETWEEN RINGGOLD
                                          AND STONEBURG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	55 min
Apr 30, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Young	30 min
Apr 30, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	67 min
Apr 30, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	3 hr
Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	44 min
Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack	64 min
Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	67 min
Apr 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	64 min
Apr 30, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	60 min
Apr 30, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	53 min
Apr 30, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	61 min
Apr 30, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	53 min
Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	51 min
Apr 30, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	67 min
Apr 30, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	53 min
Apr 30, 10:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton, Parker, Tarrant	2 hr
Apr 30, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.