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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2006, 5:17 PM CST for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 30, 2006, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2006, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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 Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
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 30, 3:04 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 3:04 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 3:15 PM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 315 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-312115- MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN- HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS- ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL- JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL- NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS- LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON- 315 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER. WHILE THE CHANCES FOR RAIN ARE SMALL...ANY STORMS THAT DO FORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH IN NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS WILL DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 600 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE... PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF THE RED RIVER TONIGHT...MAINLY DURING THE EVENING HOURS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:21 PM CST, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 421 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 TXZ091-302245- MONTAGUE- 421 PM CST THU MAR 30 2006 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER UPDATE... AT 420 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEARING RINGGOLD IN NORTHWEST MONTAGUE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RINGGOLD AND ROWLAND.... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL UP TO PENNY SIZE...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 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 30, 4:21 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FWD | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 28 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.