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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 18, 2004Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2004, 3:09 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 18, 2004, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 898 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.6

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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 18, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:07 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
307 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-191100-
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-
307 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING NORTH OF
A BRECKENRIDGE...DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX...TO CANTON LINE. THE
MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN
HALF OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AS A COLD FRONT LINGERS
NEAR THE RED RIVER. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING NORTH OF
A BRECKENRIDGE...DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX...TO CANTON LINE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1131 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

TXZ093-181730-
GRAYSON-
1131 AM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 1131 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF POTTSBORO...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST
OF SHERMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

BELLS...DENISON...POTTSBORO AND SHERMAN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN GRAYSON COUNTY.

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:15 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
215 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

TXZ091>095-182015-
COOKE-FANNIN-GRAYSON-LAMAR-MONTAGUE-
215 PM CDT FRI JUN 18 2004

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 208 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING ALONG THE RED
RIVER FROM NOCONA IN MONTAGUE...TO JUST NORTH OF MARYSVILLE AND
GAINESVILLE...TO LAKE TEXOMA...TO NEAR POWDERLY IN LAMAR COUNTY
...MOVING EAST 20 MPH AND TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS ALONG THE
IMMEDIATE RED RIVER.

HENDRIX...ARTHUR CITY...DENISON...DEXTER...POTTSBORO...RINGGOLD
...ST. JO AND SUMNER ARE ALL IN THE PATHS OF THESE CLUSTER OF STORMS.

WITH STRONGER...STORMS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL TO BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND
GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED.

TAKE COVER INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA UNTIL
THE STORMS DISSIPATE OR MOVE AWAY FROM THE AREA. STREET FLOODING IS
POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	23 min
Jun 18, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	44 min
Jun 18, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	62 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.