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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 10, 2005Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2005, 5:51 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
Apr 10, 2005, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 247 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 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 Apr 10, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
352 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

.DISCUSSION...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL BUT THE EXTREME
EASTERN COUNTIES UNTIL 11 PM. THE 20Z SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATED
THAT THE DRYLINE EXTENDED EAST OF A WICHITA FALLS...TO BROWNWOOD
LINE. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED UP BETWEEN GAINESVILLE...AND
LAMPASAS. WITH THE UPPER LOW OVER NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
WILL MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD TONIGHT AND MONDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL
END ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF TONIGHT...BUT WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY
ACROSS THE EAST. BESIDES THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
TONIGHT...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE.  THE GRADIENT
HAS WEAKENED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...SO HAVE CANCELED THE WIND
ADVISORY THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO GO UNTIL 6 PM. AFTER THE UPPER
SYSTEM MOVES EASTWARD...WE WILL SEE DRY WEATHER MONDAY NIGHT
THROUGH THURSDAY. RAIN CHANCES WILL RETURN FOR FRIDAY INTO THE
WEEKEND AS THE NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES.  #58

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  58  75  49  76 /  50  10  10   0
WACO, TX              57  77  47  78 /  50  20  10   0
PARIS, TX             59  74  48  74 /  80  40  10   0
DENTON, TX            58  74  47  76 /  50  10  10   0
MCKINNEY, TX          58  74  48  76 /  60  10  10   0
DALLAS, TX            58  76  49  76 /  50  10  10   0
TERRELL, TX           59  75  48  76 /  70  30  10   0
CORSICANA, TX         59  77  48  76 /  70  30  10   0
TEMPLE, TX            57  79  47  79 /  50  20  10   0

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
TX...NONE.

&&

58/
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 3:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
330 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100-
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 SUN APR 10 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE FROM
BOWIE...TO MINERAL WELLS..TO GOLDTHWAITE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
INTO TONIGHT.

A DRYLINE WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON NEAR A LINE FROM BOWIE...TO
MINERAL WELLS...TO GOLDTHWAITE.  ISOLATED SUPERCELLS WILL DEVELOP
ALONG THIS DRYLINE AND MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE INTERSTATE 35
CORRIDOR REGION EARLY THIS EVENING.  VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SUPERCELL
STORMS.  A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS THEN EXPECTED TO ORGANIZE AFTER
SUNSET ALONG THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR AND MOVE SLOWLY EAST
TONIGHT.  LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS COMPLEX TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER ACROSS FAR EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH
TEXAS...OR EAST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM...TO HEARNE...THROUGH MIDDAY
MONDAY...AS AN UPPER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS JUST TO THE NORTH.

ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL ARRIVE NEXT FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY...WHEN ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL LOW AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT
MOVE INTO THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEST OF I-35 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
ACTIVATION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.  ACTIVATION
ALONG AND EAST OF I-35 WILL LIKELY TAKE PLACE AFTER 7 PM.

TR/92

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 10, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
440 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ143-157-102245-

CORYELL-HAMILTON-
440 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 440 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ADAMSVILLE...OR 21 MILES
SOUTH OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ARNETT...JONESBORO AND
PURMELA.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM...ALONG WITH FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING MAY BE REQUIRED IF THE STORM CONTINUES TO
INTENSIFY.

65/DD
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:00 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
500 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ092-102230-

COOKE-
500 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ERA...OR 11 MILES WEST OF
SANGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ERA...GAINESVILLE AND
WOODBINE.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
MAY BE REQUIRED.
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:03 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
503 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ130-102230-

ERATH-
503 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAIRETTE...OR 3 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BLUFF DALE...MORGAN MILL AND
STEPHENVILLE.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

65/DD
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:20 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ102-117-102245-

PARKER-WISE-
520 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRINGTOWN...OR 10 MILES
NORTH OF WEATHERFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BOYD AND SPRINGTOWN.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 5:32 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
532 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

TXZ131-102330-

HOOD-
532 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 532 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLUFF DALE...OR 10 MILES
NORTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GRANBURY AND OAK TRAIL
SHORES.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

65/DD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 10, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood64 min
Apr 10, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton59 min
Apr 10, 6:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise3 hr
Apr 10, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Johnson65 min
Apr 10, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant54 min
Apr 10, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke62 min
Apr 10, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson33 min
Apr 10, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton47 min

Nearby

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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.