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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 25, 2008Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2008, 7:25 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 25, 2008, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 25, 7:26 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Little River-Academy, TX	NICKEL HAIL 3 SOUTH OF LITTLE RIVER
Apr 25, 7:31 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Little River-Academy, TX

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 25, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KFWD 260025
SVRFWD
TXC027-260100-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0252.080426T0025Z-080426T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
725 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  HOLLAND...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 12 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY AT 740 PM

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND
STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3089 9727 3076 9732 3086 9758 3092 9750
      3103 9730
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 356DEG 11KT 3086 9745

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KFWD 260102
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
801 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2008

TXC027-260111-
/O.EXP.KFWD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-080426T0100Z/
BELL TX-
801 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL BELL COUNTY
EXPIRED AT 800 PM CDT...

AT 801 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING MOVED
OUT OF THE AREA AND THE WARNING EXPIRED.

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3089 9727 3076 9732 3086 9758 3092 9750
      3103 9730
TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 356DEG 11KT 3086 9745

$$


77/TLD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	34 min
Apr 25, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	65 min
Apr 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	27 min
Apr 25, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	31 min
Apr 25, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	28 min
Apr 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Milam	2 hr
Apr 25, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Robertson	17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.