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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 7, 2004Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2004, 5:19 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 7, 2004, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 368 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2848 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2848 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 7, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 7, 4:28 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung73 min
Jun 6, 7:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke96 min
Jun 6, 7:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack, Young2 hr
Jun 6, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDenton40 min
Jun 6, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise64 min
Jun 6, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise82 min
Jun 6, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant83 min
Jun 6, 8:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke62 min
Jun 6, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker64 min
Jun 6, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton89 min
Jun 6, 9:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto82 min
Jun 6, 10:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Jun 6, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant85 min
Jun 6, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker76 min
Jun 6, 11:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke115 min
Jun 6, 11:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Grayson, Parker2 hr
Jun 6, 11:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise2 hr
Jun 7, 12:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack4 hr
Jun 7, 12:50 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant4 hr
Jun 7, 1:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCooke, Denton, Grayson4 hr
Jun 7, 1:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise3 hr
Jun 7, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack74 min
Jun 7, 4:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack3 hr
Jun 7, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin41 min
Jun 7, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Hunt62 min
Jun 7, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin13 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.