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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2006, 3:01 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Aug 6, 2006, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2006, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hunt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 6, 2:17 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:17 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 217 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 .DISCUSSION... APPROACHING...WNWD MOVING DISTURBANCE NEAR LAKE CHARLES LA LOOKS TO CONTINUE ITS COURSE THROUGH MONDAY INTO E/SE TX. STILL MANY UNCERTAINTIES WITH THE COLD CORE SYSTEM. SYSTEM IS BROAD AND COMPLEX WITH SEVERAL EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES OUT AHEAD OF IT...THUS WILL BASE FCST MORE ON MAIN PLAYER OVER NEAR LAKE CHARLES LA. MODELS NOT PROJECTING NW MOVEMENT AND TEND TO WANT TO KEEP THIS SYSTEM MOVING DUE WEST...WHICH SATELLITE DATA SHOWS IS NOT THE CASE. AS A RESULT...FOLLOWED MORE OF THE AVERAGE OF GFS ENSEMBLE MEANS...WHICH IS MORE CONSERVATIVE ON RAIN CHANCES AS COMPARED TO THE OPERATIONAL GFS. WE EXPECT COVERAGE TO LESSEN AFTER SUNSET WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND LACK OF A SFC FOCUS...DESPITE SOME LARGE SCALE LIFT OVER N TX OVERNIGHT PER 700-300 MB Q-VECTOR PROGS. DID LEAVE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MENTIONED E OF I-35 THIS EVENING...COINCIDING WITH DEEPER TROPICAL PLUME. CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM AS WELL...BUT FEEL IT CAN BE HANDLED IN THE HAZARDOUS WX OUTLOOK. FOR MON-TUES...WE LEFT BEST CHANCES OVER S/SE COUNTIES...WITH LEAST CHANCES N/NW COUNTIES. SLIGHT CHANCES WILL LINGER OVER THE SW COUNTIES ON TUES...AS UPPER RIDGE SLOWLY BUILDS BACK OVER N TX FROM THE NORTHEAST. HIGH TEMPS SHOULD MODIFY SLIGHTLY AS WELL WITH INCREASED MOISTURE AND CLOUD COVER EARLY IN THE WEEK...BEFORE INCREASING ONCE AGAIN LATE WEEK AND NEXT WEEKEND...AS UPPER RIDGE EXPANDS BACK OVER N TX. MAY SEE A WEAK FRONT STALL OVER THE ARK-LA- TEX BY NEXT WEEKEND AND WILL HOLD ONTO SOME DIURNAL LOW POPS E OF I-35. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 78 98 78 98 / 20 20 20 0 WACO, TX 75 95 75 96 / 30 40 40 20 PARIS, TX 75 98 74 98 / 30 20 20 0 DENTON, TX 77 97 77 97 / 20 20 20 0 MCKINNEY, TX 76 95 74 96 / 30 20 20 0 DALLAS, TX 79 99 78 98 / 30 20 20 0 TERRELL, TX 76 95 75 96 / 30 30 30 0 CORSICANA, TX 75 94 74 96 / 40 40 40 10 TEMPLE, TX 74 93 73 95 / 40 50 40 20 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /05
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 2:52 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 252 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 TXZ105-062015- HUNT- 252 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006 * SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... HUNT COUNTY AT 252 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CADDO MILLS...CAMPBELL... COMMERCE AND GREENVILLE. PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3301 9585 3325 9587 3318 9629 3288 9621 92
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 3:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 4:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 5:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 27 min |
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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.