Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2006, 1:17 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2006, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2006, 1:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McLennan County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 14, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 610 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KFWD 141817
SVRFWD
TXC309-141915-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0252.060514T1817Z-060514T1915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
117 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN MCLENNAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 215 PM CDT
* AT 117 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MCGREGOR...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH. THIS STORM WAS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES SOUTH OF LORENA BY 140 PM
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS
PASSED.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND
STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 3142 9748 3133 9741 3126 9734 3137 9714
3144 9727
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KFWD 141841
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
140 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006
TXC309-141850-
/O.CAN.KFWD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-060514T1915Z/
MCLENNAN TX-
140 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN MCLENNAN
COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 140 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING
WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.
RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL
POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM AS IT CONTINUES TO WEAKEN ACROSS
SOUTHERN MCLENNAN COUNTY NEAR MOODY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT SUNDAY
AFTERNOON FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3142 9748 3133 9741 3126 9734 3137 9714
3144 9727
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 60 min |
| May 13, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 62 min |
| May 14, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 41 min |
| May 14, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 62 min |
| May 14, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 54 min |
| May 14, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 45 min |
| May 14, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 42 min |
| May 14, 4:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 33 min |
| May 14, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 49 min |
| May 14, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 61 min |
| May 14, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 64 min |
| May 14, 6:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 67 min |
| May 14, 6:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| May 14, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 33 min |
| May 14, 8:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 51 min |
| May 14, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 56 min |
| May 14, 8:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 55 min |
| May 14, 9:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 61 min |
| May 14, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 63 min |
| May 14, 9:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 63 min |
| May 14, 9:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 61 min |
| May 14, 10:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 3 hr |
| May 14, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 58 min |
| May 14, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 53 min |
| May 14, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 59 min |
| May 14, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 58 min |
| May 14, 1:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
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.