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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 2004Lampasas County, Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 7:23 AM CDT for Lampasas County, Mills 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: May 30, 2004, 7:23 AM CDT (12:23 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 2245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 12.4

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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 May 30, 6:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 6:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 7:07 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 30, 7:00 AM 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
May 30, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	73 min
May 30, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	64 min
May 30, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	61 min
May 30, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	74 min
May 30, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	60 min
May 30, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	31 min
May 30, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	40 min
May 30, 6:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Lamar	3 hr

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.