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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 335, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 31, 2004Freestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2004, 1:43 PM CDT for Freestone County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 31, 2004, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2004, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Freestone County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 761 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
761 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 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 Jul 31, 12:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 12:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1214 PM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004

.AVIATION DISCUSSION...
VFR FOR METRO AIRPORTS NEXT 24 HOURS WITH LIGHT E-SE SFC FLOW. KACT
WL LIKELY SEE SOME TSRA THIS AFTERNOON...AND POSSIBLY AGAIN TOMORROW
AFTN...BEYOND TAF TIME. WL GO WITH A TEMPO RIGHT OFF THE BAT FOR 3SM
-TSRA BR BKN030CB. CONVECTION SHOULD END MOST LOCATIONS AFTER
SUNSET. 80

&&

.MORNING UPDATE...
WEAK SURFACE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY ACROSS SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF
FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WILL MOVE LITTLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
MODERATE INSTABILITY AND VIRTUALLY NO CONVECTIVE INHIBITION WILL
RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. HAVE RAISED POPS
TO 30-40% ACROSS SOUTHERN COUNTIES AND INSERTED MENTION OF LOCALLY
HEAVY RAINFALL. DEEP MOIST AIRMASS WITH VERY HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER
VALUES SUGGEST THAT...ONCE AGAIN TODAY...ANY STORM THAT FORMS WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE 2 TO 3 INCH/HOUR RAINFALL RATES.

BEYOND THIS AFTERNOON...PREVIOUS FORECAST IS IN VERY GOOD SHAPE.
07/BB

&&

.AVIATION...
WEAK SURFACE RIDGE OVER NORTH TX WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST. SURFACE
WINDS WILL GRADUALLY BECOME MORE SELY BY END OF THIS TAF
CYCLE...WITH WIND SPEEDS GENERALLY LESS THAN 8 KTS. CANT RULE OUT A
BRIEF LAYER OF STRATUS/SC AFTER SUNRISE...OTHERWISE SHOULD SEE NO
MORE THAN SCT CLOUDS AT TAF SITES TODAY AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS TO
WEST. VSBYS NOT EXPECTED TO BE A PROBLEM EXCEPT POSSIBLY AT KACT
THIS MORNING. OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY OVER FAR SE COUNTIES MAY BE FOCUS
FOR ISOLD/SCT TSRA...HOWEVER THIS SHOULD REMAIN WELL SE OF KACT.
..06..

&&

.PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...
350 AM CDT
THE VERY ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE TO SETTLE DOWN AS MORE
SEASONAL UPPER LEVEL RIDGING INCREASES ACROSS THE SOUTH-CENTRAL AND
SOUTHWEST U.S. CONCERNING THE RECENT EVENTS...I DONT RECALL HAVING A
FULL LATITUDE TROUGH AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR EXTENDING FROM
SOUTHERN CANADA INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH TEXAS...SUCH AS THE ONE WE
EXPERIENCED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. IT HAS BEEN A TRULY
NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE.

WE WILL KEEP LO END POPS IN THE EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ZONES TODAY AND
AGAIN SUNDAY. THE RUC MODEL FORECASTS AN AREA OF WEAK MOISTURE
CONVERGENCE (AND CONVECTION) TO CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE
SOUTHEAST...IN THE LOCATION OF THE WEAKENING...NEARLY STATIONARY
FRONT. NOCTURNAL STORMS HAVE AGAIN PRODUCED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN
OVERNIGHT. THE WEAK COLD POOLS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS MAY
ASSIST I AFTERNOON CONVECTIVE FORMATION. SOME ADDED CONVERGENCE FROM
THE SEA BREEZE MAY ASSIST IN THIS PROCESS.

OTHERWISE...CONDITIONS SHOULD SLOWLY DRY OUT OVER THE NEXT SEVEN
DAYS.  NEVERTHELESS...WE HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES ABOUT A CATEGORY
OR MORE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS THE EXTENSIVE GROUND MOISTURE
AND EVAPOTRANSPIRATION KEEP THE LID ON TEMPERATURES. MOST OF THE
WARMING ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUILDING RIDGE ALOFT WILL BE ABOVE THE
CONTACT LAYER...RESULTING IN A VERY SLOW RETURN TO UPPER 90S BY NEXT
WEEK. WE SAW CONDITIONS SIMILAR TO THIS AT THE BEGINNING OF
JULY...WHEN HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE SLOW TO REBOUND TO SEASONAL
AVERAGES. FURTHERMORE...THE GFS 1000-850 MB THICKNESS MAX NEXT WEEK
STAYS MAINLY TO THE IMMEDIATE NORTH...ACROSS OUR NORTHWEST ZONES AND
INTO WESTERN/CENTRAL OKLAHOMA.  WE HAVE SHAVED THE NEAR 100 DEGREE
TEMPS NEXT WEEK IN THE DFW AREA BACK INTO THE UPPER 90S.

A MAJOR PROBLEM IN THE GREATER DFW AREA OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS WILL
BE OZONE/POLLUTION...INCREASING BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT WIND DISPERSAL
AND SLOWLY INCREASING SUNSHINE/HEAT.  #26
&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX   93  74  95  75 /  10  10   0   0
WACO, TX   93  73  95  74 /  10  10   0   0
PARIS, TX   91  71  93  73 /  10   0   0   0
DENTON, TX   93  71  94  73 /   0   0   0   0
MCKINNEY, TX   93  71  94  73 /   0   0   0   0
DALLAS, TX   93  74  95  75 /  10  10   0   0
TERRELL, TX   92  72  93  74 /  10  10   0   0
CORSICANA, TX   92  73  94  74 /  10  10   0   0
TEMPLE, TX   94  73  95  74 /  10  10   0   0
&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...AIR POLLUTION WATCH LEVEL RED FOR DFW AND SURROUNDING AREAS
TODAY &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 11:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-012200-
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-
1100 AM CDT SAT JUL 31 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM
LAMPASAS TO ATHENS. HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE THE
PRIMARY THREATS. RAINFALL RATES IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES AN HOUR CAN
BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S BY
TUESDAY. THE WARM TEMPERATURES WILL COMBINE WITH HUMIDITY...TO
PRODUCE AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES AT OR ABOVE 100 THROUGH THE REMAINDER
OF NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

07/BB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:49 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 2:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFreestone4 hr
Jul 31, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan40 min

Nearby

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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.