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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2005, 7:08 PM CST for Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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 31, 2005, 7:08 PM CST (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2005, 8:16 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Robertson County, TX
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 31, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 Mar 31, 6:59 PM CST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 6:59 PM CST, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 5:24 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 524 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-011200- 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- 524 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH BOX 115 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR AREAS OF NORTH TEXAS EAST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM...WAXAHACHIE... TEMPLE. A MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT SOUTHEAST OF A EMORY...TERRELL...CORSICANA... GROESBECK...HEARNE LINE. A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING IS EXPECTED AS FAR WEST AS A BOWIE... WEATHERFORD...HAMILTON...SAN SABA LINE...AS A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DRYLINE AND COLD FRONT CONTINUE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE AREA. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AS TEMPERATURES ALOFT CONTINUE COOLING RAPIDLY IN ADVANCE OF AN UPPER LOW. HOWEVER...DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND ISOLATED TORNADOES CANT BE RULED OUT IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA WHERE DEEPER MOISTURE AND BETTER INSTABILITY RESIDE. ELSEWHERE...BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...LOOK FOR GUSTY NORTH AND NORTHWEST WINDS TO OCCUR...ESPECIALLY BY DAYBREAK FRIDAY WHEN WIND SPEEDS ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL BE ONGOING NORTHEAST OF A SHERMAN TO EMORY LINE AT DAYBREAK. GUSTY NORTH AND NORTHWEST WINDS BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH WILL LIKELY OCCUR MOST OF THE DAY FRIDAY...BEFORE DIMINISHING BY EVENING. ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM WILL ARRIVE NEXT TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT WITH A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ONCE AGAIN. AT THIS TIME...IT IS TOO EARLY TO ASSESS ANY SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WITH THIS SYSTEM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED...ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 IN THE WATCH/MODERATE RISK AREA.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 4:53 PM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 453 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 TXZ158>160-174-010000- BELL-FALLS-MCLENNAN-MILAM- 453 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF BELL...FALLS...MCLENNAN AND MILAM COUNTIES BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM. DUE TO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE AREA...THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RESIDENTS IN THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 5:54 PM CST, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 554 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 TXZ160-010030- FALLS- 554 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 554 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ROSEBUD...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMERON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE LOTT...MARLIN AND ROSEBUD. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:10 PM CST, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
610 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0606 PM HAIL 10 SW LOTT 31.10N 97.15W
03/31/2005 0.88 INCH FALLS TX AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN WESTPHALIA.Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:12 PM CST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
612 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0609 PM HAIL 10 SW LOTT 31.10N 97.15W
03/31/2005 0.75 INCH FALLS TX AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
PENNY SIZE HAIL NOW REPORTED IN WESTPHALIA.Local storm report, Mar 31, 6:30 PM CST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
630 PM CST THU MAR 31 2005
..TIME.. ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE.. ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION.. ST ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0629 PM HAIL 10 SW LOTT 31.10N 97.15W
03/31/2005 1.50 INCH FALLS TX AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
QUARTER TO HALF DOLLAR HAIL REPORTED IN WESTPHALIA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 56 min |
| Mar 31, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 45 min |
| Mar 31, 6:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 16 min |
| Mar 31, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 42 min |
| Mar 31, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2005Every 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.