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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 2001, 9:57 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- Sep 7, 2001, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 10:34 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 ES | Nacona, TX | A fruit stand was blown over and shingles were blown off some roofs. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 3154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.3
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 Sep 7, 8:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 8:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 855 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 COLD FRONT CONTINUES ITS SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT...AND IS MOVING THROUGH KSPS AT 01Z. TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED 5 TO 10 DEGREES BEHIND THE FRONT...AND WILL BRING COOLER TEMPERATURES INTO THE NORTHWESTERN ZONES THROUGH THE EVENING. AT PRESENT SPEED...FRONT WILL BE BETWEEN BOWIE AND GAINESVILLE BY 04Z. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FINALLY CROSSED THE RED RIVER...ALONG THE FRONT...BETWEEN WICHITA FALLS AND BOWIE. 00Z FWD SOUNDING SHOWS THE CAP STILL IN PLACE...AND STRONGER THAN IT WAS AT 12Z. DESPITE THE CAP...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD AFFECT AT LEAST THE COUNTIES ALONG THE RED RIVER. WITH CURRENT POSITION OF FRONT...WILL LOWER MINIMUM TEMPERATURES IN THE NORTHWEST...AND TWEAK OVERNIGHT LOWS ALONG THE RIVER. 84 .FWD...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 64 min |
| Sep 8, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.