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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT for Rains County, Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 8, 2005, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rains County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 8, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 307 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 .DISCUSSION... STRONG AFTERNOON CONVECTION WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING AS SHORT WAVE FORCING CONTINUES TO ACT ON MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS. THIS SHORTWAVE WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH TUESDAY WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER MCS FLAREUP LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY MORNING OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA. LATER...LIFT AND HEATING WILL RESULT IN MORE SCATTERED CONVECTION TUESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING... AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY BUT TO A LESS DEGREE. PW/S REMAIN 1.5-2.0 INCHES WITH LI/S AROUND -2 AND CAPES ABOVE 1200 J/KG. WEAK STEERING WINDS MEAN FOR SLOW MOVERS THUS HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SOME AFTERNOON CONVECTION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY MAY TURN SEVERE BRIEFLY WITH HAIL AND DOWNBURST WIND. AFTER MID-WEEK... CONVECTION WANES AND TEMPERATURES WARM UP FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND OVER THE WEEKEND AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION. THE HOTTEST DAYS SHOULD BE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WHEN MAXS MAY REACH OR EXCEED 100 OVER THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS. NEXT WEEK... A WEAK FRONT WILL MOVE INTO OKLAHOMA MONDAY... AND POSSIBLY MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN CWA NEXT TUESDAY WITH SCATTERED CONVECTION. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 75 92 75 97 / 40 30 30 20 WACO, TX 73 91 74 98 / 50 40 40 20 PARIS, TX 70 93 70 96 / 40 30 30 20 DENTON, TX 72 93 72 97 / 40 30 30 20 MCKINNEY, TX 72 92 72 96 / 50 30 30 20 DALLAS, TX 75 92 75 97 / 40 30 30 20 TERRELL, TX 72 92 73 97 / 50 40 40 20 CORSICANA, TX 72 91 73 97 / 50 40 40 30 TEMPLE, TX 73 91 74 98 / 50 40 40 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. && 75/75
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091100- 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- 330 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. HEAVY RAIN...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH...AND SOME SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE DRY WEATHER SETTLES IN LATE IN THE WEEK. THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON SUNDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE FROM ANY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH 9 PM. 58
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 329 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 TXZ122-082100- VAN ZANDT- 329 PM CDT MON AUG 8 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 329 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF VAN...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. RAINFALL OF UP TO 1 INCH PER HOUR IS EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THIS MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 10:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Lampasas, Mills | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 3 hr |
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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.