Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2004, 10:44 PM CDT for Hood County, Johnson County, Somervell County, Texas. It was in force for 91 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 2, 2004, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Somervell County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 64 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3860 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KFWD 030344
SVRFTW
TXC221-251-425-030515-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1043 PM CDT WED JUN 2 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HOOD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
JOHNSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
SOMERVELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
* AT 1043 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 27 MILES WEST OF OAK TRAIL
SHORES TO 18 MILES NORTH OF JOSHUA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
OAK TRAIL SHORES AROUND 1050 PM CDT
GRANBURY AROUND 1055 PM CDT
JOSHUA AROUND 1105 PM CDT
KEENE...GLEN ROSE...CLEBURNE AROUND 1115 PM CDT
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
LAT...LON 3251 9805 3251 9807 3254 9802 3254 9735
3240 9725 3214 9788
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Delta, Hunt | 95 min |
| Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 77 min |
| Jun 2, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 73 min |
| Jun 2, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague, Wise | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 93 min |
| Jun 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 75 min |
| Jun 2, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 89 min |
| Jun 2, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every 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.