Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 11, 2003Fannin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2003, 3:16 AM CDT for Fannin County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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 11, 2003, 3:16 AM CDT (08:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fannin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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

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, 6 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 8:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 21 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 11, 3:15 AM CDT, 1 minute before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1148 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1133 PM    2 S GAINESVILLE           TX   60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/10/03   COOKE                          TWO LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN
                                          2 MILES SOUTH OF
                                          GAINESVILLE REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 11, 2:24 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	60 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

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.