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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 7:02 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 5, 2006, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 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 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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
- 510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
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 5, 6:45 PM CDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 6:45 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 4:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 400 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-061100- 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- 400 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BOWIE TO DENTON TO SULPHUR SPRINGS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EAST ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY THAT EXTENDS ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS. A COMPLEX OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE GOLDTHWAITE...LAMPASAS...AND TEMPLE AREAS LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS MOISTURE IS LIFTED NORTH. A SECOND COMPLEX OF STORMS SHOULD THEN MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS...INCLUDING THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO LIKELY... RESULTING IN FLOODING PROBLEMS...ESPECIALLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN IN RECENT DAYS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND AGAIN THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER 6 PM....AND ELSEWHERE IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA AFTER 11 PM. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 65 min |
| May 5, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 42 min |
| May 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 47 min |
| May 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 47 min |
| May 5, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 65 min |
| May 5, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 60 min |
| May 5, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 31 min |
| May 5, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 32 min |
| May 5, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mills | 46 min |
| May 5, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 52 min |
| May 5, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 5, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mills | 28 min |
| May 5, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 54 min |
| May 5, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 63 min |
| May 5, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 55 min |
| May 5, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 66 min |
| May 5, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 57 min |
| May 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 60 min |
| May 5, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 55 min |
| May 5, 11:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 39 min |
| May 6, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 56 min |
| May 6, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 64 min |
| May 6, 12:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Mills | 3 hr |
| May 6, 12:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| May 6, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 63 min |
| May 6, 12:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 46 min |
| May 6, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 6, 12:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| May 6, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Lampasas | 51 min |
| May 6, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 64 min |
| May 6, 1:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, McLennan | 61 min |
| May 6, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Milam | 66 min |
| May 6, 2:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 2 hr |
| May 6, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 46 min |
| May 6, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 2 hr |
| May 6, 2:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 117 min |
| May 6, 2:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Robertson | 2 hr |
| May 6, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 57 min |
| May 6, 3:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 2 hr |
| May 6, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 2 hr |
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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.