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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 431, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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. && 75
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
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 6, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 64 min |
| Dec 6, 2:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 56 min |
| Dec 6, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| Dec 6, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 62 min |
| Dec 6, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 65 min |
| Dec 6, 3:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| Dec 6, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker, Somervell | 57 min |
| Dec 6, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 64 min |
| Dec 6, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 30 min |
| Dec 6, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 39 min |
| Dec 6, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 56 min |
| Dec 6, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Rains, Van Zandt | 61 min |
| Dec 6, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 15 min |
| Dec 6, 5:56 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 2 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.