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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 431, NWS Fort Worth, TX

December 6, 2004Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 6, 2004, 4:53 PM CST for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
Dec 6, 2004, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Dec 6, 2004, 5:45 PM CST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 6, 1:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 2004-12-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 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 Dec 6, 2:17 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 6, 2:17 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
218 PM CST MON DEC  6 2004

.DISCUSSION...
SQUALL LINE PROGGED TO BE NEAR/ALONG I-35 AT 23 Z... AND THROUGH THE
EASTERN COUNTIES BY 03Z THIS EVENING.  VIGOROUS UPPER TROUGH/SHORT
WAVE WITH SIGNIFICANT COLD POOL ALOFT... CURRENTLY OVER SE NEW
MEXICO AT 20Z... WILL MOVE NORTHEAST RAPIDLY AND INTO SW OKLAHOMA
THIS EVENING.  ALTHOUGH THE FWD 18Z SOUNDING INDICATED A CAP AROUND
900MB... THERE IS STRONG SYNOPTIC LIFT...DEEP LAYER SHEAR AND JET
DYNAMICS MOVING INTO THE REGION.  THUS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING
ALONG THE SQUALL LINE.  CONCERNING TORNADO POTENTIAL... AS THE
SQUALL LINE MOVES INTO THE WARM SECTOR AIR MASS (IN THE KSAT-
KLFK-KHOU REGION) ROTATING SURFACE BASE SUPERCELL STORMS COULD
DEVELOP AND LEAD TO ISOLATED TORNADOES JUST OUTSIDE OUR SOUTHEAST
CWA LATE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

REST OF THE FORECAST... OTHER THAN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN OVER THE
SE 1/2 WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY... NORTH TEXAS SHOULD ENJOY A
PATTERN OF FAIR WEATHER AND NORMAL TEMPERATURES REST OF THE WEEK.

ANOTHER STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY NIGHT
WITH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION NEXT MONDAY.  THIS
FRONT WILL BE OF NORTH PACIFIC ORIGIN AND CURRENTLY LOOKS SEASONABLY
COOL AND DRY.

LOOKING FAR AHEAD... OUR 16 DAY GFS IS SHOWING A POTENTIAL FOR
ARCTIC AIR TO INVADE THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND NORTH TEXAS TWO WEEKS
FROM TODAY... ON MONDAY DEC 20.  HOWEVER... THE UPPER FLOW PATTERN
REMAINS PROGRESSIVE AND THE ARCTIC AIR WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION
BY THE 22ND.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  46  65  41  64 /  30   0   0  10
WACO, TX              46  66  39  65 /  30   0   0  10
PARIS, TX             46  65  37  62 /  80   0   0  10
DENTON, TX            45  64  39  62 /  30   0   0  10
MCKINNEY, TX          46  64  38  62 /  30   0   0  10
DALLAS, TX            46  66  41  64 /  30   0   0  10
TERRELL, TX           47  64  39  64 /  60   0   0  10
CORSICANA, TX         47  66  41  64 /  60   0   0  10
TEMPLE, TX            47  67  39  65 /  20   0   0  10

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM CST MONDAY FOR ZONES
TXC035...TXC085...TXC093...TXC097...TXC099...TXC113...TXC119...
TXC121...TXC133...TXC139...TXC143...TXC147...TXC181...TXC193...
TXC213...TXC217...TXC221...TXC223...TXC231...TXC237...TXC251...
TXC257...TXC277...TXC281...TXC309...TXC333...TXC337...TXC349...
TXC363...TXC367...TXC379...TXC397...TXC425...TXC429...TXC439...
TXC467...TXC497...TXC503.

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 6, 2:32 PM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
232 PM CST MON DEC 6 2004

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071031-
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-
232 PM CST MON DEC 6 2004

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
A SQUALL LINE WILL MOVE ACROSS AREAS WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 THROUGH
500 PM CST...WITH THE THREAT ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN
500 PM CST THROUGH 800 PM CST. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL
BE DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH WITH EMBEDDED BOWING SEGMENTS...ALONG
WITH LOCALIZED SEVERE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS. AN ISOLATED
TORNADO CANT BE RULED OUT AS THE LINE OF STORMS MOVES INTO AN AREA
OF BETTER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND STRONG WIND SHEAR ALONG AND EAST OF
INTERSTATE 35. THE LINE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT METRO AREAS
OF DALLAS-FORT WORTH AND WACO IN TIME FOR THE EVENING RUSH HOUR.

THIS ACTIVITY IS ALL DUE TO A VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND
PACIFIC COLD MOVING TOWARDS THE AREA FROM WEST TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF NORTH TEXAS BY MID EVENING...WITH GUSTY
SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH BEHIND THE FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT NORTH TEXAS LATE
WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT
LOOKS MINIMAL DUE TO MEAGER MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY IN PLACE AHEAD
OF THE SYSTEM.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY BE NEEDED WEST OF INTERSTATE 35
THROUGH 5 PM CST...AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN 5 PM CST AND 8
PM CST.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 6, 4:01 PM CST, 52 minutes before
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Local storm report, Dec 6, 4:21 PM CST, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 6, 1:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung64 min
Dec 6, 2:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland56 min
Dec 6, 2:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens61 min
Dec 6, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland62 min
Dec 6, 3:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto65 min
Dec 6, 3:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague61 min
Dec 6, 3:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Parker, Somervell57 min
Dec 6, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant64 min
Dec 6, 4:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque30 min
Dec 6, 4:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill39 min
Dec 6, 5:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Navarro56 min
Dec 6, 5:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Rains, Van Zandt61 min
Dec 6, 5:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis15 min
Dec 6, 5:56 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.