Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

May 26, 2000, 11:24 PM CDT (04:24 UTC)

Expired

May 27, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Grayson County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

949 
WUUS54 KFWD 270425
SVRFTW
TXC181-270530-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1124 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1124 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SHERMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BELLS AROUND 1135 PM CDT
  DENISON AROUND 1140 PM CDT

DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO 1 1/2 INCHES IN DIAMETER WITH THIS 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH NO WARNING. MOVE IMMEDIATELY
TO A STURDY STRUCTURE IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR THREATENING CLOUDS
APPROACH.

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 3366 9668 3353 9653 3364 9638 3382 9647

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 10:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1000 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT...HAS BEEN LIMITED TO THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE NORTHWESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY WARNING AREA...THAT HAVE BEEN
MOVING EASTWARD.  WILL KEEP BEST POPS AND MENTION OF POSSIBILITY
OF SEVERE ACROSS THE NORTHERN THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS.  THE NORTHERN
END OF AN AREA OF ELEVATED CONVECTION BETWEEN WACO AND KERRVILLE...
HAS DECREASED.  HAVE KEPT 20 TO 30 PERCENT POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
TIER. THOUGH THE RAIN CHANCES ARE DECREASING.  58

.FTW...CAUTION ON AREA LAKES TONIGHT ALL BUT SE ZONES.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1000 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

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

0815 PM    8 NW NEWCASTLE            TX   TORNADO
05/27/00   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY LAWTON
                                          OKLAHOMA NEWS CREW

0830 PM    5 SSW PADGETT             TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   YOUNG                          GRAHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT

0847 PM    JEAN                      TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER

0905 PM    2 S MARKLEY               TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   YOUNG                          GRAHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT
                                          REPORTED NUMEROUS
                                          WINDOWS KNOCKED OUT
                                          BY HAIL

0918 PM    JEAN                      TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00   YOUNG                          GRAHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT
                                          UNITS REPORTED ALL WINDOWS
                                          IN JEAN HAVE BEEN BLOWN
                                          OUT BY HAIL

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

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.