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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 4, 2003Hood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2003, 12:48 AM CDT for Hood County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 4, 2003, 12:48 AM CDT (05:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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: 894 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jun 3, 10:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 10:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	63 min
Jun 3, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	66 min
Jun 3, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	57 min
Jun 3, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	56 min
Jun 3, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every 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.