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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2001, 10:38 PM CDT for Johnson County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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 8, 2001, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Johnson County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 10:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Joshua, TX | Trained spotters estimated 52 knot wind gusts. |
| Sep 8, 10:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Crowley, TX | Spotters estimated 52 knot wind gusts. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 3809 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
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 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 900 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001 DO NOT ANTICIPATE MAKING ANY CHANGES IN THE CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE. LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS...IN WATCH 731...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST OVERNIGHT. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOODING REMAINS A PROBLEM WITH THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS. .FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SATURDAY NIGHT FOR THAT PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS...TO WACO...TO ATHENS. 42
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 8, 7:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
728 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0715 PM 10 NNW BRECKENRIDGE TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
09/09/01 STEPHENS DIME SIZE HAIL NEAR THE
COUNTY LINE. REPORTED
BY BRECKENRIDGE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.Local storm report, Sep 8, 7:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
746 PM CDT SAT SEP 8 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0710 PM 2 S NEWCASTLE TX 2.75 INCH HAIL
09/09/01 YOUNG GRAHAM FD REPORTED
BASEBALL SIZE HAIL AT
FORT BELKNAP COUNTY
PARK.Local storm report, Sep 8, 9:41 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 60 min |
| Sep 8, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 60 min |
| Sep 8, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 62 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.