Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT for Parker 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
- Apr 6, 2004, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Parker County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 484 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
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 Apr 6, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 311 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 .DISCUSSION... CONVECTION BEGINNING TO FIRE OUT WEST IN RESPONSE TO COLD-CORE UPPER LOW NEARING...AND DOWN SOUTH DUE TO DIFFERENTIAL HEATING OF MOIST UNSTABLE AIR. STILL COULD SEE SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AS THE MAIN THREAT. HAVE HIGH CHANCE TO LIKELY POPS ACROSS THE CWA THIS EVENING AND DECREASE THEM MOST AREAS AFTER MIDNIGHT (KEPT THE NORTHEAST LIKELY THROUGH EARLY MORNING). COMPLEX...PROGRESSIVE HEMISPHERIC PATTERN FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. CURRENT PATTERN OF PIVOTING TROUGHS ALONG 50N...ONE NEAR NOVA SCOTIA AND THE OTHER OVER THE WESTERN GULF OF ALASKA...WILL EVOLVE INTO ONE FOR TRANSPORTING ARCTIC AIR SOUTHWARD. STRONG SHORT WAVE WILL DEVELOP THURSDAY MORNING OVER ALBERTA AS THE NOVA SCOTIA TROUGH RETROGRADES AND AMPLIFIES THE NORTHERLY FLOW PATTERN OVER WESTERN CANADA DOWN THE ROCKIES INTO ARIZONA. RAPID CYCLOGENESIS TAKES PLACE BE FRIDAY MORNING IN THE CENTRAL ROCKIES AND TAKES A SOUTHERN TRACK THROUGH SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES BY SUNDAY. THE SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE OUT OF THE ROCKIES ALONG A STRENGTHENING BAROCLINIC ZONE... THUS WE ARE LIKELY TO SEE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN ON FRIDAY. A STRONG LATE-SEASON COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE CWA FRIDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL TURN NOTICEABLY COLDER BEHIND THE FRONT THROUGH MONDAY...AND WINDS WILL BE UP SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. AS THE COLD DOME SETTLES OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS...THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH AXIS WILL START TO PIVOT EASTWARD ON SUNDAY. THIS WILL CAUSE LARGE SCALE OVER-RUNNING OUT WEST EARLY SUNDAY THAT SPREADS OVER THE CWA WITH A COLD RAIN DURING THE DAY. ONCE THE UPPER SYSTEM MOVES EAST OF THE CWA...WE WILL HAVE SEVERAL DAYS OF NICE WEATHER. ANOTHER FRONT IS POISED TO ARRIVE LATE NEXT WEDNESDAY. PREFERRED AVN/MRF FOR THIS FORECAST. THEY HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 56 70 55 73 / 60 20 10 0 WACO, TX 59 75 56 76 / 40 20 10 0 PARIS, TX 56 69 52 71 / 60 40 10 0 DENTON, TX 56 69 54 73 / 60 30 10 0 MCKINNEY, TX 56 70 53 73 / 60 30 10 0 DALLAS, TX 56 72 55 73 / 60 20 10 0 TERRELL, TX 56 73 54 73 / 60 20 10 0 CORSICANA, TX 59 75 56 75 / 50 20 10 0 TEMPLE, TX 59 77 57 78 / 60 20 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 6, 3:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 337 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 TXZ091>094-100>105-115>121-129>134-141>147-156>161-062036- BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DENTON-EASTLAND- ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON-HILL-HOOD-HUNT- JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMPASAS-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILLS-MONTAGUE- NAVARRO-PALO PINTO-PARKER-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-WISE- YOUNG- 337 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTHWEST OF A BONHAM...GREENVILLE...EMORY LINE. THE MAIN RISK IS FOR LARGE HAIL...WITH A LOWER RISK OF DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENING ...MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND EAST OF A BOWIE TO BRIDGEPORT LINE. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA. MOREOVER...THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTH TEXAS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITHIN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA. 26
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 6, 6:38 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 638 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 TXZ117-118-070030- PARKER-TARRANT- 638 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE FOR PARKER COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED WEST OF WEATHERFORD NEAR GARNER WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH TOWARDS PEASTER AND WEATHERFORD BY 730 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL BETWEEN 1/2 INCH AND 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. 07/BB
Local storm report, Apr 6, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
645 PM CDT TUE APR 6 2004
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0642 PM HAIL 7 W WEATHERFORD 32.76N 97.89W
04/06/2004 1.25 INCH PARKER TX TRAINED SPOTTERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 66 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.