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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 25, 2005Parker County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2005, 6:41 PM CDT for Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 25, 2005, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 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 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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.

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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 May 25, 6:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 6:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 4:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 25, 5:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
519 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

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

0255 PM     TSTM WND DMG    WILLS POINT              32.71N  96.01W
05/25/2005                  VAN ZANDT           TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

            POWER POLES SNAPPED, LINES BLOWN DOWN, SIGNS BLOWN OFF
            BUILDINGS, TREE LIMBS, PEA HAIL AND MINOR FLOODING IN
            STREETS

Special weather statement, May 25, 6:27 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
627 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

TXZ116-117-260030-
PALO PINTO-PARKER-
627 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERRIN...OR 13
MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
FROM THIS STORM.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE COOL...MINERAL WELLS...
SALESVILLE AND MINERAL WELLS STATE PARK.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED FOR PARTS OF PALO PINTO
COUNTY AND PARKER COUNTY BY 700 PM IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO
STRENGTHEN.

Special weather statement, May 25, 6:33 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
633 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

TXZ133-260030-
JOHNSON-
633 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 633 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GODLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CLEBURNE...GODLEY AND
CLEBURNE STATE PARK.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING MAY BE NEEDED FOR PARTS OF WESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY BY
7 PM.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	51 min
May 25, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	41 min
May 25, 12:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	53 min
May 25, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	65 min
May 25, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	57 min
May 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	66 min
May 25, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Rains	64 min
May 25, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	62 min
May 25, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	59 min
May 25, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	80 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	27 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Somervell	45 min

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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.