Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2004, 3:18 AM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 3, 2004, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2004, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montague County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 3016 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 Jul 2, 9:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:10 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 310 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031000- 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- 310 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING ALONG AND NORTH OF A GRAHAM...DENTON...SULPHUR SPRINGS LINE. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL TO 2 INCHES AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING ARE THE MAIN THREATS. THOUGH A CAPPING INVERSION ALOFT EXISTS OVER THESE AREAS...WIND SHEAR ALOFT AND INSTABILITY ABOVE THE INVERSION HAVE DRAMATICALLY INCREASED SINCE MIDNIGHT NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND WEAKENED THE INVERSION SOMEWHAT...WHICH HAS LED TO RAPID STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST TOWARDS FAR NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH DAYBREAK .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON INDEPENDENCE DAY AND THE FOLLOWING EVENING...NAMELY OVER WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS WEST OF A JACKSBORO...MINERAL WELLS...STEPHENVILLE LINE. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY NORTH AND EAST...AS A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVES INTO THE REGION. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED ALONG THE IMMEDIATE RED RIVER EARLY THIS MORNING...AND POSSIBLY NEEDED AS FAR SOUTH AS THE DALLAS AND FORT WORTH METROPLEX BY DAYBREAK AND AFTER. 05/
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 1:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 149 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 TXZ091-092-030815- COOKE-MONTAGUE- 149 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 149 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME ALREADY SEVERE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND LARGE HAIL ACROSS SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 54 MILES NORTHWEST OF NOCONA TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELECTRA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DEXTER...MARYSVILLE...MONTAGUE...MUENSTER...NOCONA...RINGGOLD...ST. JO AND STONEBURG ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE RED RIVER WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. 05/
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 3:04 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 304 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 TXZ091>093-101>103-030845- COOKE-DENTON-GRAYSON-JACK-MONTAGUE-WISE- 304 AM CDT SAT JUL 3 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 304 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR WICHITA FALLS INTO SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE STORMS WILL ENTER WESTERN SECTIONS OF MONTAGUE COUNTY AND NORTHERN SECTIONS OF JACK COUNTY...INCLUDING STONEBURG...BOWIE...CUNDIFF AND SURROUNDING AREAS BETWEEN 330 AM AND 4 AM. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH AND UP TO NICKEL-SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY. WARNINGS WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED FOR THESE AREAS IF THESE STORMS MAINTAIN THEIR CURRENT INTENSITY. BEYOND 4 AM...THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO CONTINUE EAST-SOUTHEAST INTO COOKE...WISE...AND DENTON COUNTIES WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY THREAT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT FOR COOKE AND MONTAGUE COUNTIES. 07/BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 46 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.