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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2005, 1:46 PM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 14, 2005, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2005, 2:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Coryell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 368 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 Jul 14, 1:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 1:46 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 146 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 .DISCUSSION... PUTTING THIS OUT A BIT EARLY...BUT WANTED TO DISCUSS THIS AFTERNOON AS WELL AS REST OF THE WEEK. THIS AFTERNOON BEST INSTABILITY IS SOUTHERN THIRD OF CWA...WITH WEAK VORT MAX APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. CONVECTION IN OKLAHOMA IS PROBLEMATIC WITH BOUNDARIES LIKELY MOVING SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON...SO NORTHERN PORTIONS ARE UNDER THE GUN FOR THUNDER AS WELL. CU FIELD IS LOOKING A BIT CONGESTED FROM WICHITA FALLS TO MOUNT PLEASANT AT THIS TIME. MY TAKE... TODAY AND TOMORROW WILL HAVE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL SIMILAR TO THE LAST TWO DAYS. ON SATURDAY...IF MODELS ARE CORRECT...500MB TROF STEEPENS ACROSS AREA AND FORMS A WEAK CUTOFF TO OUR SOUTHWEST. GIVEN THE TROPICAL NATURE OF THIS AIRMASS...I/M EXPECTING THIS TO BEHAVE JUST LIKE A TUTT LOW...WITH CONVECTION ON THE EAST THROUGH NORTH SIDE IN THE LIFT ZONE AND SUBSIDENCE TO THE WEST. MOS OUTPUT GIVES SATURDAY THE HIGHEST POPS OF THE WEEK AND I WOULD EXPECT SATURDAY TO BE FAIRLY WET...WITH MORE AREAL COVERAGE THAN SO FAR THIS WEEK. MAIN THREATS WILL APPEAR TO BE SOME MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL...WET MICROBURSTS...AND GIVEN SLOW NATURE OF CELL MOVEMENT SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING. BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON WE WILL NEED TO EVALUATE THE NEED FOR FLASH FLOOD WATCH ON SATURDAY IF THE HIGHER POPS SCENARIO HOLDS IN FUTURE MODEL RUNS. BY SUNDAY THE UPPER TROF SLIDES A BIT FARTHER WEST AND WEAK RIDGING MOVES ACROSS NORTH TEXAS FROM THE EAST AS THE SUBTROPICAL RIDGE EXTENDS FARTHER WEST. THIS MAY BE AN INDUCED RIDGE BETWEEN THE ROCKIES LEE TROF AND THE TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE ASSOCIATED WITH EMILY. AT ANY RATE...MODELS SEEM TO HOLD THIS FEATURE IN PLACE THROUGH NEXT WEEK...WITH SEA BREEZE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN FAR SOUTHEASTERN ZONES. AS LONG AS EMILY/S TRACK REMAINS TOWARDS MEXICO THIS RIDGE WILL LIKELY HOLD IN PLACE...REINFORCED BY SUBSIDENCE FROM EMILY OUTFLOW ALOFT. 84 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 76 96 75 93 / 30 30 30 50 WACO, TX 75 93 74 92 / 30 50 40 50 PARIS, TX 73 93 74 92 / 30 30 30 50 DENTON, TX 75 96 74 93 / 30 30 30 50 MCKINNEY, TX 75 96 76 93 / 30 30 30 50 DALLAS, TX 76 97 76 93 / 30 30 30 50 TERRELL, TX 75 93 76 92 / 30 40 30 50 CORSICANA, TX 74 93 75 92 / 30 50 40 60 TEMPLE, TX 75 93 74 92 / 30 50 40 60 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && /84
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 5:17 AM CDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 517 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-142100- 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- 517 AM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TODAY AND THIS EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL BRING A THREAT OF LIGHTNING...BRIEF...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND A FEW DAMAGING DOWNBURSTS OF WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... AREA WIDE...THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER... ISOLATED DOWNBURSTS OF DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. THERE IS A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF A TEMPLE...GROESBECK...PALESTINE LINE NEXT MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SOUTH OF A LAMPASAS...WACO...CORSICANA ...ATHENS LINE NEXT THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE TODAY...MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE DOWNBURST THREAT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 9:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 14, 1:28 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 128 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 TXZ160-161-141900- FALLS-LIMESTONE- 128 PM CDT THU JUL 14 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINFALL 7 MILES NORTH OF BREMOND...OR 15 MILES EAST OF MARLIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 69 min |
| Jul 14, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 71 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.