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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 287, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 13, 2003Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 1:50 AM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 13, 2003, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 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, 6.8 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: 646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 379 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 15.8

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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 12, 9:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
947 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003

SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS
EVENING.  MOST OF THESE STORMS ARE ELEVATED ABOVE THE COLD POOL FROM COMPLEX
OF STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT SCATTERED STORMS TO CONTINUE OVERNIGHT WITH
GOOD ELEVATED INSTABILITY.  35 TO 40 KNOT LOW LEVEL JET IS FORECAST TO
DEVELOP IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND THIS SHOULD KEEP SCATTERED STORMS
OVERNIGHT.

WILL MAKE SOME MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO TEMPERATURE/CLOUDS/WINDS BASED ON
CURRENT TRENDS.  WILL ALSO LOWER POPS TO 40 PERCENT AREA WIDE AND KEEP
SEVERE MENTIONED.

FCSTID =   79

.FWD...
TX...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDT, 8 hours 35 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...GENERALLY
WEST OF A GAINESVILLE...DENTON...TO HILLSBORO LINE.  ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

ENERGY FROM AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CURRENTLY OVER NEW
MEXICO...COUPLED A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS... WILL BRING A GOOD
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT.  THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FORM NEAR THE
DRY LINE IN WEST TEXAS EARLY THIS EVENING.  THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
SOUTHEAST ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...
STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  SOME LOCALIZED
FLOODING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE
STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH NEXT
THURSDAY...AS A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVE ACROSS THE
REGION. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT.
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND RIVER STEM FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS
WELL...FRIDAY NIGHT AND THIS WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY AREAS FROM
INTERSTATE 20 TO THE RED RIVER WHERE SOILS ARE MORE SATURATED.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 AND NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 20 EARLY THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS THE REST OF NORTH
TEXAS TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
810 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003

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

730 PM     NORMANGEE                 TX   WIND DAMAGE
06/12/03   LEON                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT...TREE BLOWN
                                          DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
826 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003

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

0801 PM    MURRAY                    TX   HAIL
06/12/03   YOUNG                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT..TOWARD MURRAY
                                          AND SOUTH BEND

Local storm report, Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
913 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2003

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

0900 PM    3 SE POSSUM KINGDOME LAKE TX   2.00 INCH HAIL
06/12/03   PALO PINTO                     REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jun 13, 12:32 AM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1232 AM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

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

1210 AM    MERIDIAN                  TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/13/03   BOSQUE                         REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	59 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	47 min
Jun 12, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	37 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	61 min
Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	56 min
Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	46 min
Jun 12, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	64 min
Jun 13, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	56 min
Jun 13, 7:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins	3 hr
Jun 13, 9:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	54 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	55 min
Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	57 min

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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.