Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 30, 2002, 2:34 AM CST (08:34 UTC)

Expired

Mar 30, 2002, 3:45 AM CST

In force

71 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, TX

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 300834
SVRFTW
TXC113-300945-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM CST

* AT 234 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR HILL...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  ARLINGTON...WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. BOTH OF THESE STORMS
  WILL MOVE ACROSS DALLAS COUNTY. 

ONE TO 1 1/2 INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH THESE 
STORMS.

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 3256 9703 3257 9654 3297 9653 3298 9701

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 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.