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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 29, 200623 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this winter storm warning at Nov 29, 2006, 10:58 AM CST for 23 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 29, 2006, 4:50 PM CST. It was in force for 22 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 29, 2006, 10:58 AM CST (16:58 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 29, 2006, 4:50 PM CST
Expired
Nov 30, 2006, 3:13 PM CST
In force
22 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 23 counties

Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 259 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2006-11-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 323 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 29, 4:45 AM CSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryFWDCooke, Jack, Montague, Stephens, Wise, Young6 hr
Nov 29, 10:35 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson, Archer, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown and 56 more5 hr
Nov 29, 12:39 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague36 min
Nov 29, 1:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Montague56 min
Nov 29, 1:34 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack26 min
Nov 29, 2:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke35 min
Nov 29, 2:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise43 min
Nov 29, 2:34 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens26 min
Nov 29, 2:45 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDWise30 min
Nov 29, 2:51 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack24 min
Nov 29, 3:07 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung23 min
Nov 29, 3:14 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke31 min
Nov 29, 3:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack30 min
Nov 29, 3:41 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke34 min
Nov 29, 3:48 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis27 min
Nov 29, 4:05 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman25 min
Nov 29, 4:20 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFWDBell, Bosque, Coryell, Ellis, Hamilton, Henderson and 10 more23 hr
Nov 29, 4:28 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens32 min
Nov 29, 4:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland49 min

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2006Every winter storm 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.