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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2000Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 10:28 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2000, 10:28 PM CDT (03:28 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 3, 10:40 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Arlington, TX
May 3, 11:20 PM CDT	Hail 3	Cedar Hill, 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 3, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 3, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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: 803 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 973 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

823 
WUUS54 KFWD 040331
SVRFTW
TXC113-439-040430-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1028 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
  TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT.

* AT 1028 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF PANTEGO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PANTEGO...LANCASTER...
  GRAND PRAIRIE...DUNCANVILLE...DESOTO...DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS...
  CEDAR HILL AND ARLINGTON

THIS STORM PRODUCED HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE IN FORT WORTH AROUND 10 PM.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3289 9716 3272 9725 3255 9709 3256 9672

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 May 3, 5:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 5:13 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
513 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING ACROSS CENTRAL
PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS..BUT BEST CHANCE WILL BE EASTERN AND
NORTHEASTERN AREAS NORTH OF BOUNDARY THAT MOVED THROUGH DFW
METROPLEX THIS MORNING.  ANOTHER BOUNDARY ON THE VISIBLE SATELLITE
FROM NORTHWEST TARRANT COUNTY TO NEAR EASTLAND TO NEAR SWEETWATER
MAY BECOME ANOTHER BOUNDARY FOR STORMS TO FORM ON...AS CUMULUS FIELD
IS BECOMING ENHANCED ALONG THIS LINE.  60+ DEWPOINTS SPREADING
NORTHWESTWARD...AND MOST OF NORTH TEXAS WILL HAVE AN AMPLE SURFACE-
BASED MOISTURE SUPPLY FOR WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
THE REST OF THE WEEK AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE AROUND THE
WEST SIDE OF THE UPPER LOW CURRENTLY OVER NORTHEAST TEXAS.  WILL
RAISE OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPS DUE TO HIGHER DEWPOINTS...OTHERWISE NO
CHANGES TO TEMPS.

DFW 62/80/65/85 2322    ACT 66/84/67/87 4423

.FTW...SOME STORM POSSIBLY SEVERE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND
       THIS EVENING AREAWIDE.

59

...AVIATION DISCUSSION...
TONIGHT SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO YESTERDAY WITH POTENTIAL FOR
THUNDERSTORMS TO LINGER AROUND AIRPORTS MUCH OF THE NIGHT. WILL TRY
TO INDICATE THIS WITH MENTION OF CB IN CLOUD TYPE AND NOT BLANKET
THUNDER AT AIRPORTS ALL NIGHT. PRECIP CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO
TOMORROW AFTERNOON AS H5 LOW TRUDGES SLOWLY EAST. 807

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 5:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
509 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....
V
0507 PM    KELLER                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   TARRANT                        QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, May 3, 5:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ...COUNTY LOCATION....
c
0511 PM    1 N KELLER                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   TARRANT                        AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED GOLFBALL HAIL

Local storm report, May 3, 6:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

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

0550 PM    GRAPEVINE                 TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   TARRANT                        GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR
                                          THE FAA BUILDING.
                                          REPORTED BY FAA
  P                                        EMPLOYEE.

Local storm report, May 3, 7:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
707 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000

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

0601 PM    IRVING                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   DALLAS                         AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL

0629 PM    1 NW DUNCANVILLE          TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   DALLAS                         AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL

0648 PM    TOLAR                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   HOOD                           SPOTTER REPORT OF
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

0641 PM    DUNCANVILLE               TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   DALLAS                         AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL

0653 PM    OVILLA                    TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   ELLIS                          AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
                                          REPORTED HALF DOLLAR
                                          SIZE HAIL

0708 PM    6 NW WAXAHACHIE           TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/03/00   ELLIS                          SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	49 min
May 3, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Somervell	63 min
May 3, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	53 min
May 3, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	48 min
May 3, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	67 min
May 3, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	29 min
May 3, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	53 min
May 3, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	55 min
May 3, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	50 min
May 3, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	63 min
May 4, 3:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	55 min
May 4, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rockwall	45 min
May 4, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	58 min
May 4, 4:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	50 min
May 4, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	60 min
May 4, 6:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	3 hr
May 4, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	55 min
May 4, 9:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	54 min
May 4, 9:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson	3 hr
May 4, 9:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	44 min
May 4, 10:40 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone	3 hr
May 4, 1:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone	3 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.