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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT for Henderson County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 5, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henderson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 5, 8:54 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 8:54 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 4:00 PM CDT, 5 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 400 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-061100- 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 SAT JUN 5 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT ISOLATED STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. AGAIN LATE TONIGHT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL APPROACH FROM THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WEST OF I-35. THE MAIN THREAT LATE TONIGHT WILL BE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... LATE NIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER SUNDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION... THERE IS A ANOTHER CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON SUNDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL GRADUALLY BE REPLACED BY WEAK HIGH PRESSURE ON MONDAY...FOLLOWED BY A RETURN TO SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. WHILE AN ISOLATED STRONG STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ORGANIZED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LESS LIKELY THAN IN RECENT DAYS. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE TONIGHT...PRIMARILY WEST OF I-35. EFFECTIVE TUESDAY JUNE 8 2004...THE AWIPS PRODUCT IDENTIFIER FOR THIS PRODUCT WILL CHANGE FROM HWOFTW TO HWOFWD. THE WMO HEADER WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED. PLEASE ENSURE THAT ANY NEEDED CHANGES ARE COMPLETED BY JUNE 8 2004. 25
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:00 PM CDT, 3 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
600 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0535 PM HAIL 5 NE MCKINNEY 33.25N 96.59W
06/05/2004 1.75 INCH COLLIN TX LAW ENFORCEMENTLocal storm report, Jun 5, 8:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 54 min |
| Jun 6, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 2:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 79 min |
| Jun 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 55 min |
| Jun 6, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Grayson | 112 min |
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.