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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 16, 2003Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2003, 9:17 AM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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 16, 2003, 9:17 AM CDT (14:17 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2003, 9:45 AM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1766 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 433 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
433 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
436 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.6
Supercell composite
22.4

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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 16, 2:37 AM CDT, 6 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:37 AM CDT, 6 hours 40 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 4:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens61 min
May 15, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEastland, Stephens44 min
May 15, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEastland, Stephens45 min
May 15, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto56 min
May 15, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto66 min
May 16, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague61 min
May 16, 2:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung63 min
May 16, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins36 min
May 16, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro52 min
May 16, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt45 min
May 16, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson59 min
May 16, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Navarro60 min
May 16, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson45 min
May 16, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson54 min
May 16, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone45 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.