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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 18, 2006, 12:03 PM CST for Ellis County, Navarro 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
- Mar 18, 2006, 12:03 PM CST (18:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2006, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ellis County, TX, Navarro County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 11:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 736 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 11:25 AM CST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 11:25 AM CST, 38 minutes before
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Local storm report, Mar 18, 7:53 AM CST, 4 hours 10 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 FERRISSpecial weather statement, Mar 18, 10:21 AM CST, 1 hour 42 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.
Special weather statement, Mar 18, 10:52 AM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1052 AM CST SAT MAR 18 2006 TXZ132-144-181715- BOSQUE-SOMERVELL- 1052 AM CST SAT MAR 18 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 1052 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STEPHENVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GLEN ROSE. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. 92
Local storm report, Mar 18, 11:33 AM CST, 30 minutes before
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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, 10:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 37 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, 12:04 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, 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.