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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 388, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 24, 2003Dallas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2003, 8:03 PM CDT for Dallas 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: Aug 24, 2003, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 24, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2003

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DISSIPATE
BY LATE EVENING. WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT
SEVERAL DAYS...WITH A LITTLE ABOVE SEASONAL NORMAL HIGHS. THE
PATTERN IS FORECAST TO CHANGE TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK...AND
WHICH SHOULD ALLOW A COLD FRONT TO MOVE INTO THE REGION FRIDAY
NIGHT AND EARLY SATURDAY. INCREASED CLOUD COVER WILL RESULT IN
COOLER TEMPERATURES BY THE END OF THE WEEK...AND WE MAY ONLY
SEE HIGHS IN THE 80S NEXT WEEKEND.

FCSTID =   58
DFW   76  96  76  96 /  10  20  10  20
ACT   72  94  72  95 /  10  30  10  20
PRX   72  96  74  96 /  10  30  10  20
DTO   72  98  73  97 /  10  20  10  20
TKI   73  98  73  97 /  10  20  10  20
DAL   76  96  76  96 /  10  20  10  20
TRL   75  97  74  96 /  10  20  10  20
CRS   74  96  74  95 /  10  30  10  20
TPL   72  93  72  95 /  20  30  20  20

.FWD...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-251000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

DAY ONE...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH TEXAS
LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING. ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS ARE
NOT EXPECTED...BUT A FEW STORMS MAY BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE...
PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME PENNY
SIZED HAIL. OTHERWISE...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...THEN A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

ISOLATED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH THIS EVENING.

80

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
439 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2003

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

0410 PM    2 S WOLFE CITY            TX   WIND DAMAGE
08/24/03   HUNT                           SEVERAL POWER POLES
                                          SNAPPED. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
525 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2003

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

0515 PM    DEPORT                    TX   WIND DAMAGE
08/24/03   LAMAR                          POWER LINES DOWNED
                                          REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Aug 24, 7:40 PM CDT, 23 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
Aug 24, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.