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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2006, 5:57 PM CDT for Henderson County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2006, 6:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Henderson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 306 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE REDEVELOPED OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 6 PM...AND WILL INCLUDE A 20 PERCENT POP FOR THE EVENING IN THIS AREA. WILL KEEP POPS OUT OF THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METRO AREA FOR THIS EVENING...SINCE THE DRY LINE IS MOVING THROUGH AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER JUST TO THE EAST...OF DALLAS...WILL INCLUDE THE 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDER. WILL RAISE A POPS A TAD FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...AS A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PLAINS OF THE U.S. THE REST OF THE FORECAST REMAINS AS ISSUED PREVIOUSLY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 59 78 52 74 / 10 0 0 0 WACO, TX 60 83 55 74 / 20 10 0 0 PARIS, TX 55 76 50 72 / 20 10 0 0 DENTON, TX 55 77 50 71 / 10 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 56 76 52 72 / 10 10 0 0 DALLAS, TX 59 78 53 73 / 10 10 0 0 TERRELL, TX 59 77 53 73 / 20 10 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 60 80 54 73 / 20 10 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 60 83 56 75 / 20 10 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && 99
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 4:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX ISSUED BY NWS SHREVEPORT LA 407 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 407 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... THERE IS SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT...MAINLY PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT...FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS. THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM PARIS... TO DALLAS...TO LAMPASAS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE UNTIL THE HEAT OF THE DAY DISSIPATES LATE IN THE EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS ON WEDNESDAY...AND ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. 99
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 2, 1:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
105 PM CDT SUN APR 02 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1050 AM HAIL 10 W MARLIN 31.31N 97.06W
04/02/2006 E2.50 INCH FALLS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
TENNIS BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED ALONG HIGHWAY 7 WEST OF
MARLIN
1050 AM HAIL 4 N MARLIN 31.37N 96.89W
04/02/2006 E1.00 INCH FALLS TX AMATEUR RADIO
1055 AM HAIL MARLIN 31.31N 96.89W
04/02/2006 E0.75 INCH FALLS TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
PENNY SIZED HAIL IN MARLIN
1140 AM HAIL PALESTINE 31.76N 95.65W
04/02/2006 E1.00 INCH ANDERSON TX PUBLIC
1155 AM HAIL TEAGUE 31.63N 96.28W
04/02/2006 E1.75 INCH FREESTONE TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN TEAGUE
1215 PM HAIL 7 E FAIRFIELD 31.72N 96.05W
04/02/2006 E1.00 INCH FREESTONE TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
QUARTER SIZED HAIL FELL IN THE COMMUNITY OF TURLINGTON
1215 PM HAIL 8 S FAIRFIELD 31.60N 96.17W
04/02/2006 E1.00 INCH FREESTONE TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
QUARTER SIZED HAIL FELL IN THE COMMUNITY OF DEW
&&
15The 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, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 57 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.