Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Mar 30, 2002, 2:33 PM CST (20:33 UTC)

Expired

Mar 30, 2002, 3:30 PM CST

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Leon 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.

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WUUS54 KFWD 302033
SVRFTW
TXC289-302130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 231 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CENTERVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUFFALO

DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE WITH THIS SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

LAT...LON 3137 9630 3101 9625 3113 9578 3147 9576
          3162 9582

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 30, 11:05 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1105 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

...AVIATION DISCUSSION...
DRY SLOT WORKING INTO WESTERN N TEXAS LATE THIS MORNING SO AIRPORTS
WILL LIKELY SEE A LIMITED BREAK IN PCPN/THUNDER FOR A COUPLE OF
HOURS. STILL...NEW DEVELOPMENT ALREADY OCCURRING IN THE SLOT AS
ATMOSPHERE QUICKLY RECOVERS. BELIEVE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDER WILL
BE EARLY AFTN TO EARLY EVENING...SO WILL LIMIT TS TO THOSE PERIODS.
STILL...EMBEDDED THUNDER COULD LINGER AFTER 02Z. WINDS WILL BECOME
MORE NE AND THEN N THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SURFACE LOW BEGINS
TO SWEEP THROUGH. 80

1010 AM PUBLIC DISCUSSION...
VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT CLEARING IS OCCURRING
UNDERNEATH DRY SLOT ACROSS SOUTHWEST TEXAS...WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE
LOW CLOUDS EVEN MAKING IT INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF THE CWA.
CURRENT THINKING IS THAT ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WILL DEVELOP IN THE DRY SLOT REGION AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATER
THIS AFTERNOON...SO WILL BASICALLY LEAVE CURRENT FORECAST WORDING
UNCHANGED.  OTHER THAN REMOVING THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AND
TWEAKING WINDS AND TEMPS...NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED.

DD/65

.FWD...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS.

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.