Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 30, 2002, 2:23 AM CST (08:23 UTC)

Expired

Mar 30, 2002, 3:15 AM CST

In force

52 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tarrant County, TX

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.

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 300823
SVRFTW
TXC439-300915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
223 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 AM CST

* AT 223 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF BEDFORD...MOVING EAST AT 
  35 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GRAPEVINE AROUND 225 AM CST

HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS STREETS...DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND 
STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3298 9743 3258 9736 3262 9703 3300 9704

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 29, 10:35 PM CST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR PUBLIC
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1035 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

AVIATION DISCUSSION...
FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA...TO JUST NORTH
OF KTKI...TO KAFW...TO KSEP...TO KBWD AS OF 23Z. THIS FRONT SEEMS TO
HAVE NEARLY STALLED...WITH THREE HOUR PRESSURE CHANGES TO THE NORTH
OF THE FRONT LOOKING ONLY SLIGHTLY BETTER TO THE SOUTH OF THE FRONT.
THE FRONT SHOULD SINK SLIGHTLY FARTHER SOUTH TONIGHT...AND MOVE
THROUGH FTW/DFW/DAL BEFORE STALLING OVERNIGHT.  SHOULD SEE CEILINGS
DECREASE...TO MVFR AROUND 09Z...AND TO IFR LEVELS 12-15Z. SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY OVER THE EDWARDS PLATEAU EAST INTO THE
BIG COUNTRY...WILL SPREAD EAST OVERNIGHT...AND WE SHOULD SEE SOME
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS IN THE METROPLEX BEFORE 09Z.  58

UPDATED ZONES TO REFLECT  SLOWER MOVEMENT OF FRONT.  RAISED MIN
TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND MAX TEMPERATURES SATURDAY.  59

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SATURDAY FOR ZONES
TXZ91>095...TXZ100>107...TXZ115>123...TXZ129>135...TXZ141...TXZ144>
146.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.