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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 27, 2008Bosque County, Hill County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2008, 1:29 AM CDT for Bosque County, Hill County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 27, 2008, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2008, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bosque County, TX, Hill County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 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 Apr 26, 5:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 5:55 PM CDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	29 min
Apr 26, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	37 min
Apr 26, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	49 min
Apr 26, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	31 min
Apr 27, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath	61 min
Apr 27, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	48 min
Apr 27, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Somervell	23 min
Apr 27, 2:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	26 min
Apr 27, 2:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	33 min
Apr 27, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	35 min
Apr 27, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	26 min
Apr 27, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	34 min
Apr 27, 4:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	26 min
Apr 27, 4:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	32 min
Apr 27, 4:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	32 min
Apr 27, 5:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Lampasas	3 hr
Apr 27, 5:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	32 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.