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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2002Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2002, 7:22 AM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 2002, 7:22 AM CDT (12:22 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2002, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bosque County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 4:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 327 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2002-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 031222
SVRFTW
TXC035-031300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
722 AM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 AM CDT

* AT 722 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLIFTON...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 55 
MPH.

LAT...LON 3184 9772 3161 9761 3172 9737 3182 9731
          3195 9745

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 4:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland52 min
May 3, 4:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath50 min
May 3, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell43 min
May 3, 6:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDErath3 hr
May 3, 6:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis58 min
May 3, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman37 min
May 3, 7:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.