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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 13, 2007Limestone County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2007, 6:03 PM CDT for Limestone 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 2007, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2007, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Limestone County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 2568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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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 Jul 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED WORDING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
420 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141100-
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-
420 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL ALONG WITH CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS TO
NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN
THREAT WITH THIS ACTIVITY. THE MOST LIKELY PLACE FOR LOCALIZED
FLOODING WILL BE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM KILLEEN...TO
HILLSBORO...TO CANTON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL LINGER AND SLOWLY WEAKEN OVER THE
REGION THROUGH MID WEEK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE
FROM SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH
FLOODING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20
THROUGH THIS EVENING.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
225 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

TXZ135-132000-
HENDERSON TX-
225 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  WESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY

AT 223 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TOOL....MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  THIS
STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS CEDAR CREEK RESERVOIR BY 240 PM. BOATERS
SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE AND SEEK SHELTER.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CANEY CITY...ENCHANTED
OAKS...EUSTACE...GUN BARREL CITY...MALAKOFF...SEVEN POINTS AND TOOL.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3234 9624 3224 9624 3212 9592 3231 9586

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
323 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

TXZ135-132100-
HENDERSON TX-
323 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTY

AT 323 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ATHENS...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ATHENS...CANEY CITY...
MALAKOFF...AND CRESCENT CITY

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3227 9605 3214 9606 3209 9580 3226 9578

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 5:03 PM CDT, 1 hour before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
503 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

TXZ147-148-132230-
ANDERSON TX-FREESTONE TX-
503 PM CDT FRI JUL 13 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL FREESTONE COUNTY
  EXTREME WEST CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTY

AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTH OF FAIRFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MPH. THIS STORM WAS NEAR SAINT ELMO AND WILL MOVE ACROSS YOUNG
AND FAIRFIELD LAKE BY 530 PM.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL UP TO 2
INCHES...PEA SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3197 9616 3193 9623 3178 9608 3186 9599

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	35 min
Jul 13, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	37 min
Jul 13, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	27 min
Jul 13, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	25 min
Jul 13, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.