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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2006, 11:48 AM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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
- Apr 2, 2006, 11:48 AM CDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Limestone County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 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 Apr 2, 4:50 AM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 4:50 AM CDT, 6 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 450 AM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 .AVIATION... DRYLINE CONTINUES TO APPROACH AREA FROM THE WEST THIS MORNING...AND IS EXPECTED TO BE INVOF THE TAF SITES BY EARLY AFTERNOON. PROBABILITIES FOR TSRA WILL BE SLIGHTLY HIGHER OFF TO THE EAST OF THE AIRPORTS...WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EASTERN PORTION OF THE KDFW TRACON. OTHERWISE...CI WILL PERSIST THROUGH FIRST HALF OF THE FORECAST PERIOD...WITH A BRIEF PERIOD OF AC/AS IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF DRYLINE. SURFACE WINDS WILL GENERALLY REMAIN AOB 12 KNOTS THROUGH THE PERIOD...WHILE VEERING FROM SSW-W-N...AS DRYLINE PASSAGE IS FOLLOWED BY A STRONGER COLD FRONT TONIGHT. 65/DD && .DISCUSSION... THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT MOVED INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN ZONES AROUND MIDNIGHT DISSIPATED AS IT MOVED FARTHER INTO THE STRONGLY CAPPED ENVIRONMENT OVER NORTH TEXAS. THE STORMS DIED JUST IN TIME TO AVOID THE SWITCHOVER TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. (THERE IS NO METEOROLOGICAL CONNECTION THERE.) A DRYLINE AND PACIFIC COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM A SURFACE LOW OVER CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHWEST THROUGH PANHANDLE AND SOUTH PLAINS INTO THE PERMIAN BASIN AS OF 09Z. THESE BOUNDARIES WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS BY MIDDAY AND THROUGH ALL BUT THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST TONIGHT. WE WILL STILL SEE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AHEAD OF THE DRYLINE/FRONT. IF STORMS FORM...THEY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE. RAIN CHANCES FOR REST OF THE WEEK DO NOT LOOK GOOD...AS AN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS THROUGH MIDWEEK. THE RIDGE WILL THEN BREAK DOWN AS THE UPPER TROUGH SLIDES FROM THE ROCKIES INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THIS SYSTEM WILL BE TOO FAR TO THE NORTH TO PROVIDE ANY BENEFIT FOR US. #58 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 85 58 78 52 / 20 10 0 0 WACO, TX 86 59 83 53 / 20 10 10 0 PARIS, TX 82 55 76 50 / 20 10 10 0 DENTON, TX 84 55 77 50 / 10 10 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 83 56 76 52 / 20 10 10 0 DALLAS, TX 83 58 78 53 / 20 10 10 0 TERRELL, TX 82 60 77 53 / 20 10 10 0 CORSICANA, TX 84 61 80 56 / 20 10 10 0 TEMPLE, TX 85 59 83 56 / 20 10 10 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 65/58
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 5:01 AM CDT, 6 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 65 min |
| Apr 2, 11:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 20 min |
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 45 min |
| Apr 2, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 66 min |
| Apr 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 32 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.