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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 1, 2004Palo Pinto County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 5:21 PM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2004, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palo Pinto County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -449 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

213 
WUUS54 KFWD 012221
SVRFTW
TXC363-012315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PALO PINTO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON IN SOUTHEAST
  PALO PINTO COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS...
  RURAL PARTS OF SOUTHEAST PALO PINTO COUNTY THROUGH 615 PM CDT

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN
EMERGENCY.

LAT...LON 3268 9822 3271 9806 3252 9808 3252 9832
          3259 9834

$$

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 1, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
310 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

.DISCUSSION...
NEXT SHORT WAVE APPROACHING THE FORECAST AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST.
TSTRMS HAVE BEGUN IN THE 100+ DEGREE AIR ALONG THE DRY LINE AT THE
WESTERN EDGE OF THE FORECAST AREA. STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
IN THE REGION...AND MANY WILL BECOME SEVERE IN THE VERY UNSTABLE
AIR. FORECAST MAY BE UPDATED SEVERAL TIMES THIS EVENING TO ACCOUNT
FOR VARIOUS WATCH BOXES THAT WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED. ACTIVITY SHOULD
MOVE EAST OF THE AREA BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THEN ANOTHER SHORT WAVE
WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT. EXPECT TSTRMS TO DEVELOP IN THE
EASTERN PLAINS OF COLORADO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THEN MOVE SOUTHEAST
OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MODELS HAVE BEEN
CONSISTENT WITH THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY MORNING SYSTEM FOR THE
PAST SEVERAL RUNS. THAT SYSTEM TOO HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE
WEATHER. MODELS ALSO BRING ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS
SOUTHEAST FROM COLORADO FRIDAY BUT TIMING IS LESS CERTAIN. IN ALL OF
THESE WEATHER EVENTS...IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS
THE RISK OF FLASH FLOODS FROM TRAINING ECHOS. IN THE EXTENDED
VIEW...THE GFS HAS BACKED OFF THE STRENGTH OF THE BUILDING RIDGE
OVER THE STATE AND NOW KEEPS A WESTERLY FLOW OVER THE STATE UNTIL
LATE IN THE FORECAST WHERE IT BECOMES SOUTHWESTERLY AGAIN WITH
ANOTHER APPROACHING TROUGH...AND ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AT
THAT TIME.
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMP/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX   69  88  70  85 /  30   0  50  30
WACO, TX               71  92  73  88 /  30   0  20  20
PARIS, TX              68  85  70  82 /  50  30  50  40
DENTON, TX             69  87  70  83 /  30   0  50  40
MCKINNEY, TX           69  87  70  83 /  30   0  50  40
DALLAS, TX             70  89  70  85 /  30   0  50  30
TERRELL, TX            70  89  71  84 /  30   0  50  30
CORSICANA, TX          71  90  73  86 /  30   0  20  20
TEMPLE, TX             71  93  74  89 /  30   0  20  20
&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.
&&

82

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
400 PM CDT TUE JUN 01 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-021100-
ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA-
DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-
HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS-
LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-
PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT-
WISE-YOUNG-
400 PM CDT TUE JUN 01 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING ACROSS
THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY WEST OF A
BOWIE...HILLSBORO...TO TEMPLE LINE.  THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM LATE THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AN OLD FRONTAL
BOUNDARY AND AN APPROACHING DRY LINE ACROSS THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF
NORTH TEXAS.  THESE STORMS COULD QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AND WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH.  VERTICAL
WIND SHEAR WILL ALSO SUPPORT SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A FEW TORNADOES.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF NORTH
TEXAS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT AS ENERGY FROM AN APPROACHING UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE INTERACTS WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY.  SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE WIND GUSTS
TO 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN. FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW
LYING AREAS WILL ALSO PRESENT A HAZARD.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AS A SERIES OF WEAK
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES INTERACT WITH A WEAK STATIONARY FRONT AND
AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE.

SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY WEST OF A BOWIE...HILLSBORO...TO TEMPLE
LINE BEFORE 8 PM.  SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE
REMAINDER OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER 7 PM.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:22 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
422 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0412 PM     HAIL            3 NW DE LEON             32.14N  98.57W
06/01/2004  0.75 INCH       COMANCHE            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED BY DE LEON FIRE DEPT

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:34 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
434 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0433 PM     HAIL            LINGLEVILLE              32.25N  98.38W
06/01/2004  0.88 INCH       ERATH               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:35 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
435 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0430 PM     HAIL            10 S COMANCHE            31.75N  98.60W
06/01/2004  0.75 INCH       COMANCHE            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            DIME SIZE HAIL IN NEWBURG

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:52 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
452 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0451 PM     HAIL            10 SW COMANCHE           31.80N  98.72W
06/01/2004  1.00 INCH       COMANCHE            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL 10 SOUTHWEST OF COMANCHE

Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:56 PM CDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
456 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0450 PM     HAIL            HUCKABAY                 32.34N  98.30W
06/01/2004  0.88 INCH       ERATH               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN HUCKABY

Local storm report, Jun 1, 5:10 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
510 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0507 PM     HAIL            LINGLEVILLE              32.25N  98.38W
06/01/2004  1.50 INCH       ERATH               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL IN LINGLEVILLE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	62 min
May 31, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Somervell	25 min
May 31, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	27 min
May 31, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	49 min
May 31, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	47 min
May 31, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	60 min
May 31, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	45 min
May 31, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	45 min
May 31, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	53 min
May 31, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	43 min
May 31, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	65 min
May 31, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	26 min
May 31, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	59 min
May 31, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	49 min
May 31, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	46 min
May 31, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	62 min
May 31, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	52 min
May 31, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	31 min
Jun 1, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	61 min
Jun 1, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	52 min
Jun 1, 12:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Robertson	38 min
Jun 1, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	51 min
Jun 1, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	53 min
Jun 1, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	64 min
Jun 1, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	53 min
Jun 1, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	65 min
Jun 1, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	61 min
Jun 1, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	67 min
Jun 1, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	59 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	58 min
Jun 1, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	65 min
Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	76 min
Jun 1, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Somervell	59 min
Jun 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	42 min
Jun 1, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	56 min
Jun 1, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	53 min
Jun 1, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	55 min
Jun 1, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.