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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2001, 12:41 AM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- May 31, 2001, 12:41 AM CDT (05:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tarrant County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 7 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
- 3359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
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 30, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 910 PM CDT WED MAY 30 2001 THUNDERSTORMS FINALLY REACHING THE EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA AT THIS TIME. 00Z SOUNDING INDICATED THE CAP HAD WEAKENED AND LIFTED WITH AN IMPRESSIVE 4000+ J/KG CAPE ABOVE 750 MB. WIND SHEAR PROFILE SUGGESTS THAT ANY STORMS WHICH FORM TONIGHT WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND MOST LIKELY TO PRODUCE HAIL AND WIND. ONLY EXCEPTION TO THIS MAY BE IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE SPEED SHEAR MAY BE SLIGHTLY MORE FAVORABLE FOR ROTATING STORMS. 00Z RUC40 RUN INDICATES BEST FORCING WILL REMAIN IN THE WEST THROUGH MIDNIGHT. EXPECT THE BEST CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS IS DEPENDANT ON ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER WEST TEXAS IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SHORT WAVE. HAVE DECIDED TO LEAVE SEVERE MENTIONED IN THE WESTERN...CENTRAL...AND NORTHEASTERN ZONES AND REMOVE IT IN THE SOUTHEAST...AS MOST OF THE ACTIVITY THERE WILL NOT OCCUR UNTIL THURSDAY MORNING. ONLY OTHER CHANGES TO PREVIOUS ZONE PACKAGE WILL BE SOME MINOR CLOUD COVER AND WIND DIRECTION ADJUSTMENTS. 79 528 PM AVIATION DISCUSSION... COMPLEX SURFACE PATTERN WITH SOUTH OKLAHOMA SURFACE LOW AND SEVERAL BOUNDARIES/OUTFLOW ACROSS THE REGION. THE BOUNDARY FROM KPGO-KF39- KMAF TURNING ACTIVE LATE AFTERNOON AND WILL FILL IN ACROSS THE AREA. TSRA WILL MOVE SLOWLY AS THEY DEVELOP ALONG THIS LINE...THEN BEGIN MOVING E-ESE AND OVERTAKING KDFW TRACON 01-03Z. LARGE HAIL AND STRAIGHT LINE WIND POSSIBLE. LATER...AS SURFACE LOW MOVES EASTWARD...A COLD FRONT WILL SWING SOUTHWARD AND THROUGH LOCAL TRACON NEAR 12Z. MAY BE ANOTHER ROUND OF TSRA AHEAD OF THIS FRONT. CLOUDS VFR/MVFR KDFW TRACON...BUT TURNING MVFR KACT 12-18Z. 75 .FWD...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 62 min |
| May 30, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 55 min |
| May 31, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 58 min |
| May 31, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| May 31, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 65 min |
| May 31, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 50 min |
| May 31, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.