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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 18, 2006Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2006, 10:31 AM CST for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 18, 2006, 10:31 AM CST (16:31 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2006, 11:08 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 18, 8:50 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 8:50 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 4:14 AM CST, 6 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 18, 7:53 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
753 AM CST SAT MAR 18 2006

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1045 PM     HAIL             FERRIS                  32.54N  96.66W
03/17/2006  M0.75 INCH       ELLIS              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            FERRIS P.D. REPORTED PENNY SIZE HAIL IN FERRIS

Special weather statement, Mar 18, 10:21 AM CST, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1021 AM CST SAT MAR 18 2006

TXZ130-181645-

ERATH-
1021 AM CST SAT MAR 18 2006

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE...

AT 1021 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF DUBLIN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BLUFF DALE...CHALK
MOUNTAIN...DUBLIN AND STEPHENVILLE.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	20 min
Mar 18, 11:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	44 min
Mar 18, 11:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	48 min
Mar 18, 12:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	57 min
Mar 18, 12:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	56 min
Mar 18, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro, Van Zandt	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.