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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 23, 2005Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2005, 1:47 AM CST for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 23, 2005, 1:47 AM CST (07:47 UTC)
Expired: Feb 23, 2005, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 22, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1490 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 230748
SVRFWD
TXC193-230845-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0013.050223T0747Z-050223T0845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
147 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 142 AM CST...LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL REPORTED A SEVERE   
  THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR HAMILTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 
  MPH.  THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HAMILTON...AND   
  IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LANHAM BY 210 AM CST

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND
STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3178 9826 3161 9818 3172 9780 3199 9801
      3192 9817 3184 9815

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KFWD 230815
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
213 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

TXC193-230845-
/O.CON.KFWD.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050223T0845Z/
HAMILTON TX-
213 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 AM CST FOR
HAMILTON COUNTY...

AT 212 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH.  
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR HICO...TO 7 MILES EAST OF 
HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF 
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. DAMAGING 
WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE 
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3185 9816 3161 9803 3172 9780 3199 9801
      3192 9817

$$

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 Feb 22, 9:33 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 9:33 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
933 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

.UPDATE...
AN UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY TO REFLECT CLEARING THE EASTERN
PORTION OF WATCH 32.

42

&&

.UPDATE...
913 PM...
HAVE ISSUED AN UPDATE TO REFLECT CURRENT PRECIP AND CDFNT
TRENDS.  42

&&

.UPDATE...
614 PM...
UPDATED PACKAGE FOR WATCH 32.

42

&&

.AVIATION...
550 PM CST...
WE WILL CONTINUE WITH A WET FORECAST FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS...AS
MODEL GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT ON DEVELOPMENT OF
WIDESPREAD CONVECTION ACROSS NORTH TEXAS LATER THIS EVENING. THIS
WILL OCCUR AS A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH ENHANCES THE LOW-LEVEL
JET...AS IT TRANSLATES THROUGH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. WILL INCREASE
TSRA CHANCES FOR ALL SITES AFTER 23/06Z...WITH BULK OF PRECIPITATION
EXPECTED TO MOVE EWD ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. LINGERING LIGHT RAIN WILL
BE POSSIBLE THROUGH END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. CIGS WILL REMAIN
IFR/MVFR THROUGH THE PERIOD AT KACT...AND SHOULD LOWER TO MVFR BY
23/03Z AT THE METROPLEX TAF SITES...WITH LIFR LIKELY DURING PERIODS
OF PRECIPITATION. OTHERWISE...SOUTHEAST SURFACE WINDS WILL BACK TO
THE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE PERIOD...AS A STRONGER COLD FRONT PUSHES
SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE REGION.

65/DD

&&

.UPDATE...
HAVE UPDATED TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 31 FOR THIS
EVENING.    42

&&

.DISCUSSION...
340 PM...
DIFFICULT FORECAST IN THE SHORT TERM WITH A RAPIDLY CHANGING AND
HIGHLY MESOSCALE EVENT ON HAND.  UPPER LOW IS EDGING CLOSER TO
CALIFORNIA...WITH SHORTWAVE ENERGY NOW CLEARLY EVIDENT ON WATER
VAPOR TO OUR SOUTHWEST.  ONE SHORTWAVE CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE
RIO GRANDE...WITH A SECOND AND MORE DEFINED SHORTWAVE JUST NOW
ONSHORE OF WESTERN MEXICO.  ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME MODERATELY
UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SO FAR LACK OF UPPER FORCING OR
DEFINITIVE MESOSCALE BOUNDARIES HAS KEPT THINGS QUIET.  THIS SHOULD
CHANGE SOON WITH CONVECTION EXPECTED TO FIRE TO OUR WEST WHERE AN
ENHANCEMENT IN CU IS NOW SEEN AS THE FIRST SHORTWAVE COMES ACROSS.

THERE IS UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT IN THE MODELS THAT CONVECTION WILL
DEVELOP AND ORGANIZE OVER THE CWA THIS EVENING.  SPC HAS MUCH OF THE
AREA IN SLIGHT RISK AND HPC HAS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OUTLINED IN
SLIGHT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL.  STRONG FORCING ALOFT WILL
COMBINE WITH INSTABILITY AND AN INCREASINGLY MOIST BOUNDARY LAYER TO
PRODUCE DEEP/STRONG CONVECTION.  HAVE LIMITED MENTION OF SEVERE TO
THE WESTERN ZONES WHERE CONVECTION SHOULD ENTER FIRST AND THIS IS
ALSO WHERE SPC HAS THE RISK FOR VERY LARGE HAIL.  STORMS SHOULD
CONGEAL INTO A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM IN THE NW WITH CORFIDI
VECTORS INDICATING EASTWARD MOVEMENT PARALLEL TO THE STATIONARY
FRONT AT ONLY 10 KNOTS.  THIS POINTS TO A POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING
ECHOS NORTH OF I-20 AND HAVE ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS AREA.
ACROSS THE SOUTH JUST SCATTERED SHOWERS/STORMS ARE EXPECTED AS THE
FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL BE TOO FAR NORTH TO HELP FOCUS RAINFALL.

FRONT WILL SLOWLY SLIDE SOUTH TONIGHT IN THE WAKE OF THE CONVECTIVE
COMPLEX.  WILL KEEP LIKELY POPS GOING WEDNESDAY...BUT HEAVY RAIN
THREAT WILL SHIFT TO THE SOUTH.  SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS
THE SOUTH TOMORROW AFTERNOON...BUT CONVECTION TONIGHT MAY NEGATIVELY
IMPACT PROGGED INSTABILITIES AND SHEAR.  THE MODELS WERE A LITTLE
COOLER/DRIER THIS RUN AND HAVE GENERALLY KEPT THE TREND OF MOSTLY
CLOUDY SKIES AND SLIGHT CHANCES OF RAIN.  RIGHT NOW SOME LIGHT RAIN
IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND AGAIN SATURDAY.  DUE TO LACK OF CONSISTENCY
PULLED THE CHANCES OUT OF THE OTHER DAYS...BUT LEFT 10 PERCENT POPS
IN THE GRIDS.  SOME WARMER WEATHER POSSIBLE EARLY NEXT WEEK AS SWLY
LOW LEVEL FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED.

TR/92

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  56  60  40  50 /  90  60  40  10
WACO, TX              59  67  45  51 /  70  60  50  20
PARIS, TX             49  54  40  50 /  90  60  40  10
DENTON, TX            52  58  39  49 /  90  60  40  10
MCKINNEY, TX          53  58  40  50 /  90  60  40  10
DALLAS, TX            57  60  40  50 /  90  60  40  10
TERRELL, TX           57  61  41  51 /  90  60  40  10
CORSICANA, TX         58  65  46  51 /  80  60  40  10
TEMPLE, TX            60  70  46  51 /  70  60  50  30

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CST WEDNESDAY FOR THE
     FOLLOWING ZONES...COLLIN...COOKE...DALLAS...DELTA...
     DENTON...EASTLAND...ELLIS...ERATH...FANNIN...
     GRAYSON...HOOD...HOPKINS...HUNT...JACK...JOHNSON...
     KAUFMAN...LAMAR...MONTAGUE...PALO PINTO...PARKER...
     RAINS...ROCKWALL...SOMERVELL...STEPHENS...TARRANT...
     VAN ZANDT...WISE...AND YOUNG.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 22, 6:10 PM CST, 7 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
610 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-231200-
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-
610 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT NORTHERN HALF...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
TEXAS TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...
RESULTING IN THE RISK OF FLASH FLOODING...THUS A FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN
ISSUED FOR THE AREA ALONG AND NORTH OF AN EASTLAND...TO CANTON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
WEDNESDAY...AND A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF
AN EASTLAND...TO ATHENS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH THIS EVENING WEST OF THE
I-35 CORRIDOR...AND ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS THE REST OF THE
AREA AFTER 9 PM.

58

In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 23, 12:27 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1227 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1225 AM     HAIL            2 NE WESTMINSTER         33.38N  96.43W
02/23/2005  1.75 INCH       COLLIN              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Feb 23, 12:36 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1236 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1225 AM     HAIL            SUMNER                   33.74N  95.67W
02/23/2005  1.75 INCH       LAMAR               TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN SUMNER

Local storm report, Feb 23, 12:39 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1239 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1239 AM     HAIL            4 W LEONARD              33.38N  96.32W
02/23/2005  0.75 INCH       FANNIN              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Feb 23, 1:26 AM CST, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
126 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0123 AM     FLASH FLOOD     PRIDDY                   31.67N  98.51W
02/23/2005                  MILLS               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER ROAD HWY 16 NORTH, ALSO ON FM 218

Local storm report, Feb 23, 1:32 AM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
132 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0124 AM     FLASH FLOOD     PRIDDY                   31.67N  98.51W
02/23/2005                  MILLS               TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER HIGHWAY 16 AND FARM ROAD 218 NEAR PRIDDY

Local storm report, Feb 23, 1:46 AM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
146 AM CST WED FEB 23 2005

..TIME..    ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST   ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0140 AM     HAIL            2 W HAMILTON             31.70N  98.16W
02/23/2005  1.75 INCH       HAMILTON            TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            REPORTED JUST WEST OF HAMILTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 10:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	62 min
Feb 22, 11:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	54 min
Feb 22, 11:50 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	3 hr
Feb 22, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	65 min
Feb 23, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	45 min
Feb 23, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	60 min
Feb 23, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	61 min
Feb 23, 12:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton	64 min
Feb 23, 12:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	62 min
Feb 23, 12:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mills	2 hr
Feb 23, 12:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	61 min
Feb 23, 1:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	58 min
Feb 23, 1:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	58 min
Feb 23, 1:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	2 hr
Feb 23, 2:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	64 min
Feb 23, 2:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Mills	2 hr
Feb 23, 3:10 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
Feb 23, 3:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton	117 min
Feb 23, 4:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	44 min
Feb 23, 6:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	115 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.