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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 9, 2001Denton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 2001, 1:46 AM CST for Denton County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Feb 9, 2001, 1:46 AM CST (07:46 UTC)
Expired: Feb 9, 2001, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Denton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 8, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 090747
SVRFTW
TXC121-090845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
146 AM CST FRI FEB 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 146 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF KRUM...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST
  OF DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KRUM AROUND 155 AM CST
  SANGER AROUND 200 AM CST

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS 
ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN 
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH NO WARNING. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A STURDY 
STRUCTURE IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR THREATENING CLOUDS APPROACH.

LAT...LON 3340 9733 3307 9734 3309 9688 3343 9708

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 Feb 8, 9:05 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 9:05 PM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
905 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

HAVE UPDATED PACKAGE TO ADJUST TIMING OF FRONT AND TEMPERATURES...
BASED ON CURRENT AND EXPECTED TRENDS.  HAVE ALSO MADE SOME
ADJUSTMENTS TO SECOND PERIOD AS PRECIP WILL STAY AROUND LONGER IN
CENTRAL AND EASTERN PORTIONS BECAUSE OF THE SPEED OF THE FRONT.
ALSO...HAVE TWEAKED THE WORDING A BIT FOR CLARITY.  81

.FTW...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT WEST OF BONHAM..FAIRFIELD...
       CENTERVILLE LINE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 8, 9:51 PM CST, 3 hours 55 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091102-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
951 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

...WIND...
A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT WEST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO
CENTERVILLE FOR STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.

...THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR ALL OF
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...A WARM MOIST AND
SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIR MASS HAS SPREAD NORTHWARD ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
TEXAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY EXTENDS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
AND NORTHWEST TEXAS...FROM NEAR SAN ANGELO TO CHILDRESS. THE LINE
WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 5 AM. THE
MAIN THREAT FROM THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIE/S...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION. ACTIVATION
MAY BE NECESSARY AFTER 1 AM.

Special weather statement, Feb 8, 10:06 PM CST, 3 hours 40 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091103-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1006 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

...WIND...
A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT WEST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO
CENTERVILLE FOR STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER
GUSTS.

...THUNDERSTORMS...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR ALL OF
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL MOVE
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS OVERNIGHT. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...A WARM MOIST AND
SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE AIR MASS HAS SPREAD NORTHWARD ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
TEXAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY EXTENDS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL
AND NORTHWEST TEXAS...FROM NEAR SAN ANGELO TO CHILDRESS. THE LINE
WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 5 AM. THE
MAIN THREAT FROM THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE
WINDS.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...AND
STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION. ACTIVATION
MAY BE NECESSARY AFTER 1 AM.

Local storm report, Feb 9, 1:30 AM CST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
130 AM CST FRI FEB 9 2001

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

1250 AM    MINERAL WELLS             TX   WIND DAMAGE
02/09/01   PALO PINTO                     MINERAL WELLS POLICE
                                          REPORT POWER LINES DOWN IN
                                          NORTHWEST MINERAL WELLS.

0120 AM    WHITT                     TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
02/09/01   PARKER                         DIME SIZED HAIL IN
                                          WHITT. REPORTED BY
                                          AWMATEUR RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 8, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	38 min
Feb 9, 12:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Palo Pinto	38 min
Feb 9, 12:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	56 min
Feb 9, 12:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	59 min
Feb 9, 1:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	53 min
Feb 9, 1:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	61 min
Feb 9, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	43 min
Feb 9, 2:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.