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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 26, 2005Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2005, 7:44 AM CST for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Mar 26, 2005, 7:44 AM CST (13:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2005, 8:30 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:46 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 26, 6:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 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.

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: 1739 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 6.8

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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 Mar 25, 5:22 PM CST, 14 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 5:22 PM CST, 14 hours 22 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
Mar 26, 2:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	37 min
Mar 26, 2:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	58 min
Mar 26, 5:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	24 min
Mar 26, 5:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	30 min
Mar 26, 6:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	31 min
Mar 26, 7:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	35 min
Mar 26, 7:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.