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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2006, 9:33 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- May 2, 2006, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eastland County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1925 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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 May 2, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 2, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 8:50 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 850 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031100- 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- 710 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN WEATHER THREATS. SEVERAL LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AND REGION-WIDE FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION LIKELY WILL BE REQUESTED LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...MAINLY NEAR AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35. 26
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 2, 3:50 PM CDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 2, 9:12 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 912 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 TXZ116>118-129>132-141-030245- COMANCHE-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-PALO PINTO-PARKER-SOMERVELL-TARRANT- 912 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MINERAL WELLS TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ALEDO...ANNETTA...AZLE... BLUFF DALE...BRIAR...CHALK MOUNTAIN...CLAIRETTE...COOL...DE LEON... DUBLIN...EAGLE MOUNTAIN...GLEN ROSE...GORDON...GORMAN...GRANBURY... HUCKABAY...HUDSON OAKS...LAKESIDE...LINGLEVILLE...LIPAN...MINERAL WELLS...MORGAN MILL...OAK TRAIL SHORES...PECAN ACRES...PELICAN BAY... PURVES...RENO...SALESVILLE...SPRINGTOWN...STEPHENVILLE... WEATHERFORD...WHITE SETTLEMENT...WILLOW PARK...DINOSAUR VALLEY STATE PARK AND MINERAL WELLS STATE PARK. PEA-SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. IF THESE STORMS INTENSIFY...ONE OR MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS MAY BE NEEDED. 13
Special weather statement, May 2, 9:23 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 923 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 TXZ100-101-030300- JACK-YOUNG- 923 PM CDT TUE MAY 2 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 923 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF OLNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GRAHAM...JEAN...JERMYN... LOVING AND OLNEY. IF THIS STORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED FOR YOUNG AND POSSIBLY JACK COUNTIES PRIOR TO 10 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 53 min |
| May 2, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 58 min |
| May 2, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 67 min |
| May 2, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 53 min |
| May 2, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 53 min |
| May 2, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 65 min |
| May 2, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Montague | 4 hr |
| May 2, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 55 min |
| May 2, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 63 min |
| May 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| May 2, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 54 min |
| May 2, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 21 min |
| May 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 3 hr |
| May 3, 2:38 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | FWD | Dallas, Parker, Tarrant | 82 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.