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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 6, 2006Robertson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2006, 6:48 PM CDT for Robertson County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 2006, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Robertson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 6, 6:35 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 6:35 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 3:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
303 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071100-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-
NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-
LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
303 PM CDT SUN AUG 6 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS A LARGE
PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING AS AN
UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA. WHILE WIDESPREAD
SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS MAY BRIEFLY REACH
SEVERE LIMITS PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH IN COVERAGE
LATER TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH
TEXAS ON MONDAY AND MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS ON TUESDAY.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS.

AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE UPPER 90S TO LOW
100S THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING IF
STORMS CONTINUE TO INTENSIFY.

DUNN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 6:10 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:12 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:16 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 6:48 PM CDT, 0 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
Aug 6, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt	23 min
Aug 6, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	29 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

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.