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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 8, 2002Leon County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2002, 12:55 AM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 2002, 12:55 AM CDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2002, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Leon County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 210 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 Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2041 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2002-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
2041 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.