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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 14, 2003Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2003, 11:23 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 14, 2003, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2003, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Eastland County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 1771 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.4

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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 14, 10:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 10:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 38 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-150900-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
345 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT.
ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL TO DIME SIZE...
OR A WIND GUST TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...NO ORGANIZED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TUESDAY AND A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.  A WEAK UPPER
LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY OVER TEXAS.
THIS SYSTEM WILL TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS THE REGION...BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT
THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
832 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

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

0830 PM    6 NW PALO PINTO           TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/03   PALO PINTO                     REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
842 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

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

0840 PM    BRYSON                    TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/03   JACK                           BRIEFED LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
846 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

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

0843 PM    PALO PINTO                TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/03   PALO PINTO                     REPORTED BY SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
955 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

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

0523 PM    ALLEN                     TX   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/14/03   COLLIN                         REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0540 PM    PLANO                     TX   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/03   COLLIN                         REPORTED BY SPOTTER

0630 PM    ROWLETT                   TX   TSTM WIND
06/14/03   DALLAS                         REPORTED BY POLICE DEPT -
                                          WINDOWS BROKEN AND WALL
                                          DAMAGED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	44 min
Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	47 min
Jun 14, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	58 min
Jun 14, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	56 min
Jun 14, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	45 min
Jun 14, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	61 min
Jun 15, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	60 min
Jun 15, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	60 min
Jun 15, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	65 min
Jun 15, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	42 min
Jun 15, 2:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	53 min
Jun 15, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	59 min
Jun 15, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	61 min
Jun 15, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	63 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.