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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 13, 2005Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 7:57 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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
Jun 13, 2005, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montague County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 2005-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2984 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 2005-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
2984 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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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 Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 5:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
715 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

TXZ091-092-140055-

COOKE-MONTAGUE-
715 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE
OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA...ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM DOUGHERTY TO 5 MILES EAST OF PETROLIA TO 15
MILES NORTH OF HENRIETTA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE BOWIE...CALLISBURG...
DEXTER...MARYSVILLE...MONTAGUE...MUENSTER...NOCONA...RINGGOLD...ST.
JO AND STONEBURG.

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN MONTAGUE AND NORTHERN COOKE
COUNTIES AROUND 8 PM.  WINDS OF AT LEAST 40 TO 50 MPH AND CONTINUOUS
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS.  IN
ADDITION...LARGE HAIL MAY BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

PERSONS INVOLVED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE
INDOOR AS THESE STORMS APPROACH.  STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR
OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague63 min
Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMontague2 hr
Jun 13, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke54 min
Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung65 min
Jun 13, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack53 min
Jun 13, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson63 min
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung53 min
Jun 13, 10:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack55 min
Jun 13, 11:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker56 min
Jun 13, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto64 min
Jun 14, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood65 min
Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath63 min
Jun 14, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath64 min
Jun 14, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker33 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.