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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 2007Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2007, 2:45 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 3, 2007, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2007, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 2007-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1124 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 2007-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.8

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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 Jun 3, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 12:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
215 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041100-
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-
215 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH THIS EVENING...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A GOLDTHWAITE TO ATHENS LINE.
SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING
WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL THE PRIMARY
THREATS.

LATER TONIGHT...A COMPLEX OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
MOVE EAST FROM WEST TEXAS...AND AFFECT MAINLY SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF
NORTH TEXAS AFTER MIDNIGHT...SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO PALESTINE LINE.
DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE CONTINUING ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH TEXAS MONDAY
MORNING ALTHOUGH THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DIMINISHING.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
MONDAY AFTERNOON...ALTHOUGH ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN LATE
TONIGHT ACROSS THE RISK AREA.

07

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:10 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1255 PM CDT SUN JUN 03 2007

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

0800 AM     TSTM WND DMG     HURST                   32.84N  97.18W
06/03/2007                   TARRANT            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            CORRECTED TIME...9 INCH TREE LIMB BROKE OFF FROM THIS
            MORNINGS STORMS IN HURST.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:12 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

TXZ158-031945-
BELL TX-
212 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BELL COUNTY

AT 212 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF TEMPLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE TROY.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3134 9735 3124 9754 3102 9722 3115 9718
      3128 9727

82/JLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 6:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack, Young35 min
Jun 3, 7:07 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDWise23 min
Jun 3, 7:17 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise13 min
Jun 3, 7:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Palo Pinto36 min
Jun 3, 7:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Erath57 min
Jun 3, 7:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton, Parker, Tarrant34 min
Jun 3, 7:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant39 min
Jun 3, 8:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas58 min
Jun 3, 8:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHood, Johnson, Somervell26 min
Jun 3, 8:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt29 min
Jun 3, 8:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson27 min
Jun 3, 9:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill44 min
Jun 3, 9:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar36 min
Jun 3, 9:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Grayson53 min
Jun 3, 9:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman53 min
Jun 3, 9:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro63 min
Jun 3, 9:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson29 min
Jun 3, 9:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFreestone, Limestone34 min
Jun 3, 10:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson, Rains, Van Zandt30 min
Jun 3, 10:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson, Limestone29 min
Jun 3, 10:41 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson, Leon34 min
Jun 3, 11:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCherokee, Houston, Leon35 min
Jun 3, 2:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell33 min
Jun 3, 2:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls29 min
Jun 3, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Milam50 min
Jun 3, 3:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls28 min
Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam49 min
Jun 3, 4:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMilam29 min
Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam32 min
Jun 3, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell33 min
Jun 3, 6:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell33 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.