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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 13, 2005Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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
May 13, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2005, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 13, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 498 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2005-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung55 min
May 13, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens56 min
May 13, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens, Young59 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.