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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 10, 2003Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

276 
WUUS54 KFWD 110415
SVRFTW
TXC097-110515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1114 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COOKE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 1114 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A 
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF GAINESVILLE TO 
  17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  GAINESVILLE AROUND 1125 PM CDT

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

LAT...LON 3395 9717 3344 9745 3344 9697 3391 9696

$$

65/DD

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 10, 8:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
855 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER INTO THE NORTHWEST
COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.  EXPECT THE MAJORITY OF THE STORMS
TO REMAIN IN THE NORTHERN ZONES...IN VICINITY OF STRONG AND FAST
MOVING SHORT WAVE.  FOR THIS UPDATE...WILL INCREASE POPS IN THE
NORTHWEST TO LIKELY AND ADD THE MENTION OF SEVERE.  EXPECT THE
MAJORITY OF SEVERE STORMS TO REMAIN NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. THE
STORMS SHOULD DECREASE IN INTENSITY AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO A MORE
CAPPED ENVIRONMENT.  NO OTHER MAJOR CHANGES WITH THIS UPDATE.

605 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

AVIATION DISCUSSION...
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH WEST OKLAHOMA WITH CONVECTION
ACROSS EAST TEXAS...AND FROM NORTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA BACK INTO WEST
TEXAS AND THEN INTO THE COLORADO ROCKIES. THERE/S A SLIGHT CHANCE
THAT FAR WEST TEXAS CONVECTION (AROUND KLBB) MAY WORK INTO OR ALONG
THE NORTHERLY TRACON PERIPHERY 06-11Z.  CONFIDENCE LOW SO NOT
INCLUDE IN TAFS.

OTHERWISE... KDFW AND KACT TRACONS ARE DRY SLOTTED AND VFR FOR THE
EVENING. SOME MVFR CEILINGS POSSIBLE KACT LATE TONIGHT THAT MAY
ADVECTED INTO KDFW TRACON AROUND DAYBREAK.    SOUTH WINDS 8-15KTS
OVERNIGHT...AND 14-27KT ON TUESDAY.  75

.FWD...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:47 PM CDT, 7 hours 28 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
347 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT OVER THE NORTHWEST
PART OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY NORTHWEST OF A BONHAM...
MCKINNEY...GRAHAM LINE. THE GREATEST THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE WILL BE PERIODS OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH
TEXAS...FROM WEDNESDAY...THROUGH MONDAY.  AT THIS TIME...NO
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA THIS
EVENING NORTHWEST OF A JACKSBORO...GAINESVILLE LINE...OR LATER TONIGHT
OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	54 min
Jun 10, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	57 min
Jun 10, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	65 min
Jun 11, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	56 min
Jun 11, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	31 min
Jun 11, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	59 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.