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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2003, 4:53 PM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 16, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 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
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, 4:40 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 16, 4:40 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
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TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-171000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 328 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING...FOR THAT PART OF NORTH TEXAS EAST OF A LINE FROM PARIS...TO CORSICANA. VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. HOWEVER...A FEW TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL ALSO LINGER INTO THIS EVENING...WITH CAUTION ADVISED ON AREA LAKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...FOR AREAS NORTH OF I20. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE ACTIVATED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING ACROSS THE MODERATE RISK AREA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:31 PM CDT, 22 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 15, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| May 15, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 44 min |
| May 15, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 45 min |
| May 15, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| May 15, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 66 min |
| May 16, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| May 16, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 63 min |
| May 16, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 28 min |
| May 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 36 min |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 min |
| May 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 59 min |
| May 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 60 min |
| May 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 54 min |
| May 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 45 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.