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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 260, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2006, 2:04 PM CDT for Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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 29, 2006, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2006, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dallas County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 701 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 29, 12:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 12:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 29, 1:51 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 151 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2006 TXZ118-119-291915- DALLAS-TARRANT- 151 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 151 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER GRAND PRAIRIE...STATIONARY. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BEDFORD...COCKRELL HILL... COLLEYVILLE...DUNCANVILLE...EULESS...GRAND PRAIRIE AND IRVING. PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 34 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.