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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 31, 2005Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2005, 8:21 PM CST for Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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, 8:21 PM CST (02:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2005, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 24 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, 2.4 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.

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: 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

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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 31, 8:02 PM CST, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 8:02 PM CST, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 5:24 PM CST, 2 hours 57 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

Local storm report, Mar 31, 7:35 PM CST, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 31, 7:36 PM CST, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 7:43 PM CST, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 7:58 PM CST, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 8:10 PM CST, 11 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 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, 7:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	68 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

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.