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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT for Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 19, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Milam County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 Aug 19, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 5:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 535 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-200900- ANDERSON TX-BELL TX-BOSQUE TX-COLLIN TX-COMANCHE TX-COOKE TX- CORYELL TX-DALLAS TX-DELTA TX-DENTON TX-EASTLAND TX-ELLIS TX- ERATH TX-FALLS TX-FANNIN TX-FREESTONE TX-GRAYSON TX-HAMILTON TX- HENDERSON TX-HILL TX-HOOD TX-HOPKINS TX-HUNT TX-JACK TX-JOHNSON TX- KAUFMAN TX-LAMAR TX-LAMPASAS TX-LEON TX-LIMESTONE TX-MCLENNAN TX- MILAM TX-MILLS TX-MONTAGUE TX-NAVARRO TX-PALO PINTO TX-PARKER TX- RAINS TX-ROBERTSON TX-ROCKWALL TX-SOMERVELL TX-STEPHENS TX- TARRANT TX-VAN ZANDT TX-WISE TX-YOUNG TX- 535 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON FRIDAY FOR THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...ALONG AND SOUTH OF AN ATHENS... HILLSBORO...TO COMANCHE LINE. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING FROM SOUTHWEST TEXAS INTERACTS WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN ONE AND THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA WITH ISOLATED TOTALS IN EXCESS OF FIVE INCHES. SINCE THE GROUND IN MANY LOCATIONS IS ALREADY SATURATED...THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. ALONG WITH THE FLOODING THREAT...A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE THIS EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTH OF AN ATHENS TO HAMILTON LINE...AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY MORNING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL ALSO INCREASE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH FRIDAY AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...AS THE FRONT STALLS IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER. HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING...MAINLY SOUTH OF AN ATHENS TO HAMILTON LINE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 524 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ147-148-192315- ANDERSON-FREESTONE- 524 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 524 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATHENS TO 13 MILES WEST OF PALESTINE TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF TEAGUE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. FAIRFIELD...FRANKSTON...MONTALBA...NECHES...PALESTINE...TEAGUE AND TUCKER ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 5:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 550 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 TXZ175-192345- ROBERTSON- 550 PM CDT THU AUG 19 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 550 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALVERT...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEARNE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. CALVERT AND FRANKLIN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. A SECOND STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS CENTERED NEAR HEARNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. FRANKLIN IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 7:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 4:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 5:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 6:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 118 min |
| Aug 20, 9:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 119 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.