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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 13, 2005Palo Pinto County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 11:44 PM CDT for Palo Pinto 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: Jun 13, 2005, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2005, 12:48 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Palo Pinto County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 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, 11:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 11:15 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 8:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
840 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141100-
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-
840 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE RED
RIVER THIS EVENING ALONG A SOUTHWARD MOVING COLD FRONT.  THE STORMS
WILL IMPACT THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE EARLY
MORNING HOURS.  THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A GAINESVILLE......DECATUR...TO EASTLAND LINE
WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM.  LARGE
HAIL...WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS.

AS THE STORMS MOVE SOUTH AND EAST OF THE WATCH AREA THEY SHOULD
WEAKEN AS THEY ENCOUNTER LESS UNSTABLE AIR.  HOWEVER...A FEW STORMS
COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO
60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE NORTH OF I-20 EARLY
TUESDAY BUT BY EVENING...THE CHANCE WILL SPREAD TO ALL OF THE
REGION. IN ADDITION...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY AND
FRIDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY NORTH OF A GRAHAM...TO GAINESVILLE LINE
THROUGH 11 PM.  LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE AFTER 11 PM
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 9:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:05 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	63 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	63 min
Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	2 hr
Jun 13, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	54 min
Jun 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	65 min
Jun 13, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	53 min
Jun 13, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	63 min
Jun 13, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	53 min
Jun 13, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	55 min
Jun 13, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	56 min
Jun 14, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood	65 min
Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	63 min
Jun 14, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	64 min
Jun 14, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	33 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.