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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 2:52 AM CDT for Cooke County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 8, 2003, 2:52 AM CDT (07:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 10:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2620 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 7, 9:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 7, 9:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-081100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 343 PM CDT WED MAY 7 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT...MAINLY OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTION...NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20...AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM HAIL AND HIGH WIND...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. WHILE NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME...SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED...MAINLY THIS EVENING IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF NORTH TEXAS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. 42
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 7, 9:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 48 min |
| May 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 42 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.