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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2007Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2007, 6:08 PM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
May 3, 2007, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2007, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 7 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 Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 97 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2007-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-279 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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 May 3, 5:32 PM CDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 5:32 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
425 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041000-
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-
425 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA. LOCATIONS ALONG AND
EAST OF A GAINESVILLE...TO DALLAS FORT WORTH...TO WACO LINE CAN
EXPECT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
BE POSSIBLE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...HAIL
TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

AREAS OF PATCHY OF FOG ARE ALSO POSSIBLE TOWARD DAYBREAK OVER MOST OF
NORTH TEXAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH TEXAS NEXT SUNDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING.

SCHULTZ

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 1:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
131 PM CDT THU MAY 03 2007

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 PM     FLASH FLOOD      FRISCO                  33.14N  96.81W
05/02/2007                   COLLIN             TX   PUBLIC

            FOLLOW UP FROM MAY 2ND STORMS...NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS
            FLOODED
Local storm report, May 3, 1:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
133 PM CDT THU MAY 03 2007

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0731 PM     TSTM WND DMG     GARLAND                 32.91N  96.63W
05/02/2007                   DALLAS             TX   PUBLIC

            FOLLOW UP FROM MAY 2ND STORMS...LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN 1
            MILE NORTH OF DOWNTOWN
Special weather statement, May 3, 1:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
133 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

TXZ148-031900-
ANDERSON TX-
133 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  ANDERSON COUNTY

AT 133 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BOTH 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PALESTINE
AND 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF PALESTINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ELKHART...FRANKSTON AND
PALESTINE.

VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS
TO 45 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH EITHER ONE OF THESE STORMS.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS
SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS
FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

LAT...LON 3200 9605 3171 9584 3156 9561 3159 9525
      3185 9544 3207 9548

05/
Local storm report, May 3, 4:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
423 PM CDT THU MAY 03 2007

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     FLASH FLOOD      5 NE GUSTINE            31.90N  98.34W
05/02/2007                   COMANCHE           TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            *** 1 FATAL *** A CAR WAS SWEPT INTO A CREEK NEAR CR 370
            OFF OF FM 1702 NEAR THE HAZELDELL COMMUNITY. THE 82 YEAR
            OLD MALE WAS RESCUED BUT AN 80 YEAR OLD FEMALE DROWNED.
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:38 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
538 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

TXZ104-118-119-032315-
COLLIN TX-TARRANT TX-DALLAS TX-
538 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN COLLIN COUNTY
  NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY
  EASTERN TARRANT COUNTY

AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF ARLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. ANOTHER STORM WAS NEAR CARROLLTON AND ALSO MOVING EAST.

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH
CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS.  PEA-SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN
COPPELL AT 536 PM.

LAT...LON 3287 9738 3263 9728 3282 9653 3316 9664

07
Special weather statement, May 3, 5:40 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
540 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

TXZ092-093-032315-
GRAYSON TX-COOKE TX-
540 PM CDT THU MAY 3 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN COOKE COUNTY
  NORTHWESTERN GRAYSON COUNTY

AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTH OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

THE STORM IS LOCATED IN OKLAHOMA SOUTH OF MARIETTA MOVING EAST
AT 5 TO 10 MPH. IT IS LIKELY TO CROSS THE FINGER OF COOKE/GRAYSON
COUNTIES TO THE NORTH OF THE DEXTER/RED BRANCH AREA.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3401 9720 3379 9730 3374 9667 3401 9663

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 7:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan4 hr
May 2, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin69 min
May 2, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton41 min
May 2, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt91 min
May 2, 7:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCollin, Denton4 hr
May 2, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis, Navarro50 min
May 2, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson74 min
May 2, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Lamar89 min
May 2, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas57 min
May 2, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall50 min
May 2, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson63 min
May 2, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Grayson39 min
May 2, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam53 min
May 2, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt63 min
May 2, 8:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls, McLennan25 min
May 2, 9:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLimestone, Robertson34 min
May 2, 10:01 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRobertson3 hr
May 2, 10:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDLeon3 hr
May 3, 7:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill, Navarro25 min
May 3, 8:12 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman33 min
May 3, 8:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRobertson27 min
May 3, 8:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill, Navarro40 min
May 3, 9:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRains, Van Zandt26 min
May 3, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill, Navarro55 min
May 3, 9:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson30 min
May 3, 9:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman28 min
May 3, 10:02 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson28 min
May 3, 11:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro26 min
May 3, 11:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHill, Navarro3 hr
May 3, 12:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro67 min
May 3, 12:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman3 hr
May 3, 1:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson30 min
May 3, 1:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson27 min
May 3, 2:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDVan Zandt3 hr
May 3, 2:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDNavarro118 min
May 3, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas, Tarrant37 min
May 3, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke55 min
May 3, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson33 min
May 3, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas56 min
May 3, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill63 min
May 3, 6:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin57 min
May 3, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke64 min
May 3, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill46 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.