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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 18, 2000Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 11:04 PM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 18, 2000, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mills County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 2268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 9.1

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The text

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

093 
WUUS54 KFWD 190410
SVRFTW
TXC333-190500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCSAT REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1104 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1104 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MULLIN...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROWNWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN MULLIN AND PRIDDY BY 1140 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 3168 9875 3152 9880 3154 9836 3171 9849

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 18, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 8:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
854 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RE-DEVELOPED AS WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGING HAS
PASSED AND LOW LEVEL JET BEGINS TO SET UP. FRONT HAS MOVED LITTLE
THIS EVENING AND THUS THERE WILL BE A THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODS FROM
TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS. HAVE ISSUED FFA FOR NORTH AND WEST ZONES
ALONG AND AHEAD OF FRONT. THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL ALSO
CONTINUE WITH GOOD INSTABILITY AND ENERGY LINGERING OVER N TEXAS.
HAVE UPPED POPS TO LIKELY IN MOST ZONES AND TWEAKED WINDS A BIT AS
WELL. OTHERWISE...REST OF PACKAGE LEFT ALONE. 80

.FTW...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR NORTH AND WEST ZONES.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 18, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
943 PM CDT THU MAY 18 2000

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

0701 PM    3 N LAKE BONHAM           TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   FANNIN

0740 PM    UNITY                     TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   LAMAR

0930 PM    12 W COMANCHE      p       TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/18/00   COMANCHE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	27 min
May 18, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	46 min
May 18, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	44 min
May 18, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	39 min
May 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Lamar	3 hr
May 19, 2:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	55 min
May 19, 4:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	3 hr
May 19, 10:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	3 hr
May 19, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Leon	2 hr
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman	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.