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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 14, 2001Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 9:39 PM CDT for Comanche 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: Jun 14, 2001, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Comanche County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 9:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Countywide, TX	Occurred in the western part of the county.

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
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 3384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1401 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 5.0

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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 Jun 14, 9:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 9:20 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
435 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0354 PM    LOVING                    TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY GRAHAM PD

0355 PM    ANTELOPE                  TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   JACK                           REPORT RELAYED BY NWS
                                          WFO NORMAN

0425 PM    BRECKENRIDGE              TX   2.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   STEPHENS                       REPORTS OF HAIL UP TO 2
                                          INCHES REPORTED TBY A TV
                                          STATION IN ABILENE AND
                                          BY THE COUNTY SHERIFF

Local storm report, Jun 14, 6:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
635 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0453 PM    NOCONA                    TX   2.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   MONTAGUE                       BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED IN NOCONA BY TV
                                          STATION

0450 PM    4 NE BONITA               TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   MONTAGUE                       QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY COOP
                                          OBSERVER

0515 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   COOKE                          STORM SPOTTER REPORTED

0520 PM    16 NW BRIDGEPORT          TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   JACK                           SPOTTER REPORTED

0543 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   COOKE                          STORM SPOTTERS
                                          ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS
                                          OVER 70 MPH.

0543 PM    2 N CISCO                 TX   TORNADO
06/14/01   EASTLAND                       CISCO FD REPORTED
                                          TORNADO ON SH 183

0543 PM    RANGER                    TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   EASTLAND                       SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE
                                          HAIL NORTH OF RANGER AT
                                          HWY 17 AND 340

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
804 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0624 PM    KRUM                      TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   DENTON                         AMATEUR RRADIO REPORTS
                                          OF DOWNED POWER LINES

0555 PM    3 W MUENSTER              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   COOKE                          SPOTTERS REPORTED
                                          GOLFBALL HAIL

0635 PM    BOYD                      TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   WISE                           AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS
                                          OF DOWNED POWER LINES AT
                                          SH 114 AND 51 WEST OF BOYD

0043 PM    5 SE WHITESBORO           TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   COOKE                          NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED
                                          ESTIMATED WIND GUST OF
                                          65 MPH.

0700 PM    KRUM                      TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   DENTON                         SPOTTERS REPORT HAIL UP
                                          TO QUARTER SIZE IN KRUM

0702 PM                              TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   DENTON                         ASOS EQUIPMENT AT KDTO
                                          AIRPORT MEASURED WIND
                                          GUST OF 59 MPH.

0733 PM    TIN TOP                   TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   PARKER                         AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS
                                          QUARTER HAIL AT TIN TOP

0733 PM    SHERMAN                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   GRAYSON                        SHERIFFS OFFICE
                                          REPORTED LARGE TREES

                DOWN IN SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
825 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

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

0754 PM    2 N BLUE MOUND            TX   0.88 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   TARRANT                        SPOTTERS REPORTED
                                          NICKEL HAIL

0755 PM    DENTON                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   DENTON                         NWS EMPLOYEE REPORTED
                                          65 MPH WIND GUST NE OF
                                          DENTON. LARGE TREE DOWN
                                          AT TEXAS WOMENS
                                          UNIVERSITY. SEVERAL
                                          TELEPHONE POLES DOWN E
                                          OF TOWN.

0803 PM    WHITE SETTLEMENT          TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/01   TARRANT                        AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS
                                          OF DIME HAIL IN WHITE
                                          SETTLEMENT

0810 PM    SAGINAW                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/01   TARRANT                        AMATEUR RADIO REPORTS
                                          OF 60 MPH WIND AND PEA
                                          SIZE HAIL IN SAGINAW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Erath	27 min
Jun 14, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	39 min
Jun 14, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Jun 14, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	65 min
Jun 14, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	58 min
Jun 14, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	46 min
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	66 min
Jun 14, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	47 min
Jun 14, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Jun 14, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	43 min
Jun 14, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hunt	55 min
Jun 14, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	65 min
Jun 14, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	43 min
Jun 14, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	53 min
Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	50 min
Jun 14, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	61 min
Jun 14, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	55 min
Jun 15, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.