Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
- May 3, 2000, 11:42 PM CDT (04:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2000, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Collin County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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.
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, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
586 WUUS54 KFWD 040444 SVRFTW TXC085-040545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1142 PM CDT WED MAY 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1245 AM CDT. * AT 1142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF CELINA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CELINA AND ANNA. DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO NICKEL SIZE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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 3340 9683 3332 9683 3329 9645 3340 9645
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, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 5:13 PM CDT, 6 hours 29 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. 807In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 6:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 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, 4 hours 35 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 HAILThe 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, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 62 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 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.