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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 9, 2006Hopkins County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2006, 5:24 AM CST for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 9, 2006, 5:24 AM CST (11:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 6:15 AM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hopkins County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 8, 11:42 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 734 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1286 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Mar 9, 4:48 AM CST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 4:48 AM CST, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 8, 5:39 PM CST, 11 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
539 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091200-
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-
539 PM CST WED MAR 8 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
THERE IS A RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT
WITH LARGE HAIL...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY RAIN. THERE IS ALSO THE
POTENTIAL FOR A FEW TORNADOES. THIS EVENINGS THREAT BEGINS WEST OF A
LINE FROM SHERMAN...CLEBURNE...EASTLAND AND WILL EXPAND EASTWARD AND
SOUTHEASTWARD OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
SEVERE STORMS MAY STILL BE ONGOING THURSDAY MORNING OVER EASTERN
SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS. AS A DRY LINE MOVES THROUGH GUSTY WEST
WINDS AND RAPIDLY LOWERING HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE A CRITICAL FIRE
DANGER THURSDAY AFTERNOON WEST OF A BOWIE...FORT WORTH...HILLSBORO...
HEARNE LINE.

LOW THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY
NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED FOR NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF
NORTH TEXAS BEFORE MIDNIGHT...SPREADING EASTWARD AFTER MIDNIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 9, 2:12 AM CST, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 3:03 AM CST, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 3:46 AM CST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 4:24 AM CST, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Mar 9, 5:12 AM CST, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	20 min
Mar 8, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	19 min
Mar 8, 10:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	43 min
Mar 8, 10:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	39 min
Mar 8, 11:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	34 min
Mar 8, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, McLennan	45 min
Mar 8, 11:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	29 min
Mar 9, 12:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	20 min
Mar 9, 12:51 AM CST	High Wind Warning	FWD	Lamar	60 min
Mar 9, 1:01 AM CST	Wind Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	15 hr
Mar 9, 1:51 AM CST	High Wind Warning	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Falls, Freestone, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more	2 hr
Mar 9, 5:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	45 min
Mar 9, 6:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2006 Every 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.