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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 382, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 1, 2004, 6:31 PM CST for Palo Pinto County, Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Nov 1, 2004, 6:31 PM CST (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2004, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Palo Pinto County, TX, Stephens County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 296 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
- 533 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 1, 5:41 PM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 5:41 PM CST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 541 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 .AVIATION... CURRENT TAFS LOOK PRETTY GOOD SO HAVE KEPT MOST IN TACK. HOWEVER...CONVECTION OUT WEST HAS PROMPTED US TO INCLUDE A TEMPO FOR TSRA 04-07Z. PRETTY MUCH MVFR WITH OCCASIONAL IFR NEXT 24 HOURS. && .SHORT TERM... FCST TO BE TRICKY THROUGH TUES...POSSIBLY TUES NIGHT ON ALL FRONTS AS NM/CO UPPER LOW/TROUGH SLIDES ENEWD ACROSS W TX TONIGHT...THEN ACROSS THE RED RIVER VALLEY/SRN OK INTO TUES NIGHT. MEANWHILE...COLD FRONT IS STILL ONLY MAKING SLOW PROGRESS SEWD AS PRESSURE FALLS/SW FLOW ALOFT OCCURRING AHEAD OF UPPER LOW KEEPS THE FRONT IN CHECK THROUGH ABOUT 02Z. AS UPPER LOW MOVES INTO W TX TONIGHT/ELECTION DAY...DEEPER BAROCLINICITY SHOULD HELP ADVANCE FRONT THROUGH ALL OF CWA BY MIDDAY TUESDAY. THOUGH BEST PWAT (=>1.5 IN) REMAINS ALONG/E OF I-35...SHOULD EXPECT RAIN BREAKING OVER OVER W TX TO CONTINUE SLOWLY SPREADING ENE INTO N TX LATER TONIGHT. ISOLD...LOW END SVR STORMS WITH DIME TO NICKEL HAIL CANT BE RULED OUT WEST-NORTH OF D/FW TONIGHT...AS MID LVL LAPSE RATES INCREASE. MOST OF ACTIVITY HOWEVER SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF SHOWERS/RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDER FROM TIME TO TIME AS BEST LIFT OCCURS BEHIND IMPENDING COLD FRONT. LOOK FOR PATCHY RAIN TO LINGER ELECTION DAY AND TUES NIGHT...AS UPPER LOW SLOWLY PULLS OUT AND WRAP AROUND MSTR REMAINS. RAIN CHANCES END BY 12Z WED AS DRIER AIR/SUBSIDENCE ARRIVE ACROSS N TX AND FLOW ALOFT BECOMES NWLY. WITH THAT SAID...WILL GO LOW END WIND BEHIND FRONT IN CAA/TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT...BUT NO WIND ADVISORY TO BE ISSUED ATTM. ALSO...TEMP FCSTS WILL BE DIFFICULT WITH CLOUDS/PRECIPITATION AND EVENTUAL CAA...LENDING TO LOW DIURNAL RANGE EXPECTED ON TUES. && .LONG TERM... DEFINITELY MORE LIKE EARLY NOVEMBER CLIMATOLOGICALLY SPEAKING FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK WEEK AS REINFORCING SHOT OF POLAR AIR SNEAKS IN BY THURS WITH HIGHS HARD PRESSED TO GET OUT OF THE 60S. SOME MODIFICATION OF TEMPS HEADING INTO NEXT WEEKEND AS UPPER LVL PATTERN DEAMPLIFIES...BUT TO WHAT EXTENT IS IN QUESTION WITH MUCH UNCERTAINTY DEPICTED AMONGST THE MODELS. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 58 62 45 60 / 70 70 30 0 WACO, TX 60 64 45 62 / 40 70 20 0 PARIS, TX 58 62 47 61 / 70 70 40 0 DENTON, TX 54 59 45 59 / 70 70 40 0 MCKINNEY, TX 56 61 46 60 / 70 70 40 0 DALLAS, TX 59 62 45 60 / 70 70 30 0 TERRELL, TX 61 64 46 61 / 70 70 30 0 CORSICANA, TX 61 65 46 62 / 50 70 20 0 TEMPLE, TX 60 64 45 62 / 50 70 20 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 05
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 1, 2:56 PM CST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Nov 1, 6:07 PM CST, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 607 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 TXZ115-020100- STEPHENS- 607 PM CST MON NOV 1 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 607 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF GUNSIGHT...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF EASTLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOUTHERN AND EASTERN STEPHENS COUNTY ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 56 min |
| Nov 1, 7:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto | 64 min |
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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.