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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 23, 2006Fannin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2006, 5:14 PM CDT for Fannin County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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 23, 2006, 5:14 PM CDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fannin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 426 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 22, 5:45 PM CDT, 23 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 5:45 PM CDT, 23 hours 29 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto36 min
Aug 22, 8:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland27 min
Aug 23, 2:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta33 min
Aug 23, 3:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDWise36 min
Aug 23, 3:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt34 min
Aug 23, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt46 min
Aug 23, 3:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHopkins29 min
Aug 23, 3:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker26 min
Aug 23, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins42 min
Aug 23, 3:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman31 min
Aug 23, 4:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill29 min
Aug 23, 4:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke23 min
Aug 23, 4:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker30 min
Aug 23, 4:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt31 min
Aug 23, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFannin31 min
Aug 23, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin33 min
Aug 23, 5:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLamar55 min
Aug 23, 5:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin64 min
Aug 23, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin55 min
Aug 23, 5:43 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman32 min
Aug 23, 5:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas31 min
Aug 23, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas60 min
Aug 23, 5:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson31 min
Aug 23, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDErath37 min
Aug 23, 6:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant35 min
Aug 23, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas33 min
Aug 23, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant33 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.