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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 28, 2001Leon County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 4:09 AM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2001, 4:09 AM CDT (09:09 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Leon County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 4:20 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Jewett, TX	Large tree limbs were blown down.

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
May 28, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 3521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 9.5

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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 May 28, 4:00 AM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 4:00 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 2:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 2:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 3:22 AM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 3:35 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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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
May 27, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	59 min
May 27, 11:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	66 min
May 28, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	59 min
May 28, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	56 min
May 28, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	57 min
May 28, 12:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	52 min
May 28, 12:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	46 min
May 28, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	53 min
May 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	48 min
May 28, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	67 min
May 28, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	46 min
May 28, 1:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	42 min
May 28, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	53 min
May 28, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	57 min
May 28, 2:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	67 min
May 28, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	51 min
May 28, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	52 min
May 28, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	44 min

Nearby

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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.