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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2007, 9:52 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 8, 2007, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2007, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1302 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 May 8, 8:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 8:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 812 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-091100- 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- 812 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT...MAINLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS. IN ADDITION...ALONG AND NORTH OF A JACKSBORO...DENTON...TO PARIS LINE THERE IS A SLIGHT THREAT FOR TORNADOES AS WELL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE LIKELY...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE TO DALLAS TO BONHAM LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE MAIN HAZARDS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL SHIFT INTO EAST AND SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20.
In the hours before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 947 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007 TXZ148-090315- ANDERSON TX- 947 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2007 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR... SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTY AT 947 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF PALESTINE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ELKHART AND PALESTINE. HAIL TO ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED. LAT...LON 3156 9574 3161 9535 3188 9547 3183 9591
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 35 min |
| May 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 55 min |
| May 8, 7:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 40 min |
| May 8, 8:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 65 min |
| May 8, 9:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 33 min |
| May 8, 9:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 24 min |
| May 8, 9:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 43 min |
| May 8, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 28 min |
| May 8, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 33 min |
| May 8, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 30 min |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 30 min |
| May 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 33 min |
| May 8, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson | 3 hr |
| May 8, 11:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 26 min |
| May 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 35 min |
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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.