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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 10, 2000Milam County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 6:47 PM CST for Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. 3 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: Mar 10, 2000, 6:47 PM CST (00:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Milam County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 7:15 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Cameron, TX
Mar 10, 7:15 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	North Elm, TX	High winds blew down trees and did damage to farm buildings and equipment along a line oriented southwest to northeast for a half mile.
Mar 10, 7:25 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Cameron, 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
Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 10, 6:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 110048
SVRFTW
TXC331-110130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
647 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MILAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM.

* AT 647 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF CAMERON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ROCKDALE AND CAMERON

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3077 9731 3063 9716 3066 9681 3083 9677
          3109 9685

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 Mar 10, 5:29 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 5:29 PM CST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
529 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

AVIATION DISCUSSION
STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PASS SOUTH OF LOCAL TRACON..BUT
EFFECTING KACT WITH SEVERE CONDITIONS THROUGH 01Z.  AS THE
CONVECTION MOVES OUT OF THE AREA THIS EVENING...MVFR CEILINGS
ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA WILL INVADE THE AREA AND LAST TO ABOUT 09Z.
WINDS INCREASING SIGNIFICANTLY 01-03Z BEHIND THE FRONT WITH AVERAGES
OF 34015G25KT EXPECTED OVERNIGHT.  SKIES BREAK SATURDAY WITH NORTH
WINDS DIMINISHING DURING THE DAY.  75

================

345 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL FIRING ALONG AND AHEAD OF
THE STATIONARY FRONT WHICH STRETCHED ACROSS JUNCTION TO CORSICANA TO
SHREVEPORT LINE AT 10/21Z.  THE PRIMARY FORCING IS IN THE LOWER
LEVELS THOUGH A PROMINENT JET MAX OF 100+ WAS PRESENT ACCORDING TO
WIND PROFILERS.  AS THE MEAN AXIS OF THE TROUGH SLIDES EAST...THIS
ACTIVITY WILL PUSH EAST.

COLD FRONT WILL DIVE SOUTH OVERNIGHT BEHIND THE EXITING LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM AND SURFACE WINDS WILL INCREASING TO WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA.
IN ADDITION...CLEARING SKIES AND COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL MAKE
TEMPERATURES FEEL MUCH COLDER THAN THEY REALLY ARE.

WEEKEND CONDITIONS WILL BE COOL AND PLEASANT.  BY MONDAY...GULF
MOISTURE STARTS RETURNING NORTH TO SET THE STAGE FOR THE NEXT ROUND
OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY.

DFW 41/60/39/69 2000
ACT 42/62/38/69 3000

.FTW...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR ALL OF N CNTRL TX.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 10, 3:43 PM CST, 3 hours 4 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-110300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
343 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

...WINDY CONDITIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
TONIGHT AS WIND SPEEDS RANGE FROM 20 TO 30 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS.
BOATERS ARE URGED TO STAY CLOSE TO SHORE AS THE WIND WILL MAKE AREA
LAKES VERY CHOPPY AND HAZARDOUS. LIGHTWEIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS SHOULD
ALSO BE SECURED THIS AFTERNOON.

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR THAT
PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM STEPHENVILLE...
TO CANTON.

A DRY LINE...SEPARATING DRIER AND HEAVIER AIR TO THE WEST FROM MOIST
AND BUOYANT AIR TO THE EAST...HAS CONTINUED TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WEST TEXAS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA REMAINS VERY
UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE AS A
STRONGER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS
EVENING.

FORECAST VERTICAL WIND PROFILES SUGGEST LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...THERE MAY
BE SUFFICIENT TURNING OF THE WINDS WITH HEIGHT TO ALLOW ISOLATED
TORNADOES TO BRIEFLY DEVELOP.

STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN THE OUTLOOK AREA SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION EARLY THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS
SHOULD BE NEEDED WEST OF I-35 FIRST...ROUGHLY BETWEEN 4 AND 6 PM. AS
THE STORMS MOVE EAST...SPOTTERS WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED EAST OF I-35
AFTER 6 PM.

&&

FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER/THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOKS FOR ADJACENT AREAS...SEE
OKCSPSOKC (NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA)...
NEWSPSSHV (NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS)...SATSPSHOU
(SOUTHEAST TEXAS)...SATSPSSAT (SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS)...AND LBBSPSSJT
(WEST CENTRAL TEXAS).

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	23 min
Mar 10, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	50 min
Mar 10, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Robertson	50 min
Mar 10, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	22 min

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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.