Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 373, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 11:41 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2000, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Hopkins County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 14, 9:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
945 PM CDT WED JUN 14 2000
WEAK COLD FRONT HAS BECOME NEARLY STATIONARY ALONG A STEPHENVILLE...
DFW...TO CANTON LINE. TRAINING OF ECHOES BETWEEN DFW AND CANTON
REPRESENT THE INITIAL THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. AS THE BOUNDARY
SAGS SLOWLY SOUTHWARD...CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE TO BE FUELED BY
THE LOW LEVEL JET. SECONDARY VORT MAX ENTERING THE PANHANDLE UNDER
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT EXPECTED TO AID ADDITIONAL LIFT AND THE
PROSPECT FOR A PROLONGED RAINFALL EVENT THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT.
WITH SATURATED GROUNDS FROM PREVIOUS RAINS...HAVE OPTIONED TO ISSUE
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF THE REGION. HAVE EXCLUDED
THE EXTREME SOUTH FROM THE WATCH WHERE ONLY LIGHT RAIN HAS OCCURRED
AND GROUND MOISTURE NOT AS DEEP.
.FTW...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR PARTS OF
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.
48The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque, Somervell | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bosque | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 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.