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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 6, 2003Jack County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2003, 5:58 PM CDT for Jack County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 6, 2003, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Jack County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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 6, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 2816 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1185 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.2

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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 6, 5:40 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 5:40 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
331 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT.
THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALTHOUGH AN
ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...WITH
A BETTER CHANCE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY.  WHILE SOME OF THE STORMS
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY COULD BECOME SEVERE...THE BETTER CHANCE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IS SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE
RED RIVER.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 4:38 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
437 PM CDT TUE MAY  6 2003

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

0431 PM    BOWIE                     TX   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/06/03   MONTAGUE                       REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, May 6, 5:57 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
556 PM CDT TUE MAY  6 2003

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

0545 PM    7 NNW GAINESVILLE         TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/06/03   COOKE                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC AT MOSS
                                          LAKE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	56 min
May 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	65 min
May 6, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	46 min
May 6, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague, Wise	56 min
May 6, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	35 min
May 6, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	45 min
May 6, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	55 min
May 6, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	35 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.