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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2003, 5:17 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 19, 2003, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Young County, TX
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 19, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -776 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 19, 5:00 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 5:00 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-200815- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 325 PM CDT MON MAY 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF A CANTON...WACO...LAMPASAS LINE. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. MOST OF THE STORMS WILL OCCUR NORTH OF A COOL FRONT... MINIMIZING CHANCES FOR DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED STORMS THAT FORM AHEAD OF THE FRONT COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR WITH TONIGHTS STORMS...WITH AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES IN SOME AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...MAINLY WITHIN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA.
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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.