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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 2, 2003Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 6:59 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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: May 2, 2003, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 2, 6:48 PM CDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 6:48 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-030930-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
402 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH
TEXAS...ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 20. HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE...DAMAGING WINDS TO 80
MPH...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS.
HOWEVER...WITH STRONG INSTABILITY A FEW BRIEF TORNADOES WILL BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY OVER SOUTHWEST PORTIONS
OF NORTH TEXAS. THE GREATEST THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL
BE NEAR A STATIONARY FRONT...WHICH WAS NEAR A
PARIS...ROCKWALL...CLEBURNE...EASTLAND LINE THIS AFTERNOON.

THUNDERSTORMS MAY EVOLVE INTO A LARGE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM THIS
EVENING...FOR A CONTINUED HAIL AND WIND THREAT FOR SOUTHERN PORTIONS
OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THROUGH
MIDNIGHT...ESPECIALLY WELL SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20.

30/SS

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 5:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
0546 PM CDT FRI MAY  2 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    3 NW MORGAN               TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/03   BOSQUE                         10 MINUTES OF HAIL
                                          COOPERATIVE OBSERVER

Local storm report, May 2, 6:08 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
0607 PM CDT FRI MAY  2 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0544 PM    HICO                      TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/03   HAMILTON                       REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          HICO PD

Local storm report, May 2, 6:13 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
0612 PM CDT FRI MAY  2 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0608 PM    MERIDIAN                  TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/02/03   BOSQUE                         REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	60 min
May 1, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	63 min
May 1, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	55 min
May 1, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	51 min
May 1, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	34 min
May 1, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	62 min
May 1, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	31 min
May 1, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	66 min
May 1, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	53 min
May 1, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	57 min
May 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	69 min
May 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	70 min
May 2, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	68 min
May 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	47 min
May 2, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	53 min
May 2, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	66 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.