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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 16, 2008Stephens County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2008, 12:32 AM CST for Stephens County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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: Feb 16, 2008, 12:32 AM CST (06:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2008, 1:15 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Stephens County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 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 Feb 15, 9:41 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 9:41 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 16, 12:03 AM CST, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 15, 10:45 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 15, 11:17 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 15, 11:58 PM CST, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 16, 12:05 AM CST, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 12:06 AM CST, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 16, 12:17 AM CST, 15 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
Feb 15, 10:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	33 min
Feb 15, 10:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	30 min
Feb 15, 10:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	44 min
Feb 15, 11:17 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	28 min
Feb 15, 11:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	47 min
Feb 15, 11:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	57 min
Feb 15, 11:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	36 min
Feb 16, 12:05 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	25 min
Feb 16, 12:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	48 min
Feb 16, 12:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	28 min
Feb 16, 12:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	31 min
Feb 16, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	43 min
Feb 16, 1:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	37 min
Feb 16, 1:39 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	36 min
Feb 16, 1:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	37 min
Feb 16, 2:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	31 min
Feb 16, 2:47 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	28 min
Feb 16, 2:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	46 min
Feb 16, 4:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	32 min
Feb 16, 6:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	22 min
Feb 16, 6:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	47 min
Feb 16, 7:03 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	27 min
Feb 16, 7:28 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	32 min
Feb 16, 7:53 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	37 min
Feb 16, 11:54 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	36 min
Feb 16, 12:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	36 min
Feb 16, 12:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Young	44 min
Feb 16, 12:27 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	33 min
Feb 16, 12:35 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	25 min
Feb 16, 12:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	44 min
Feb 16, 12:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	32 min
Feb 16, 1:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	30 min
Feb 16, 1:34 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	26 min
Feb 16, 1:44 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	31 min
Feb 16, 1:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton, Grayson	32 min
Feb 16, 2:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	24 min
Feb 16, 2:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	30 min
Feb 16, 2:33 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Lamar	27 min
Feb 16, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	31 min
Feb 16, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro	49 min
Feb 16, 3:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	47 min
Feb 16, 3:29 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	31 min
Feb 16, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	40 min
Feb 16, 4:22 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	23 min
Feb 16, 5:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam, Robertson	26 min
Feb 16, 5:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	36 min
Feb 16, 5:31 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	26 hr

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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.