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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 13, 2008Jack County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2008, 8:38 PM CDT for Jack County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: May 13, 2008, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2008, 9:07 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Jack County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 3961 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 May 13, 5:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 5:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 8:33 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 7:44 PM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 7:48 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:01 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:07 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 13, 8:27 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 13, 8:29 PM CDT, 9 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
May 13, 7:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Young	119 min
May 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	53 min
May 13, 7:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	32 min
May 13, 7:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	31 min
May 13, 8:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	29 min
May 13, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	31 min
May 13, 8:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	35 min
May 13, 8:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	23 min
May 13, 9:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	35 min
May 13, 9:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	34 min
May 13, 9:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	31 min
May 13, 10:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	30 min
May 13, 10:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	26 min
May 13, 10:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	32 min
May 13, 11:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	37 min
May 13, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	35 min
May 13, 11:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque	4 hr
May 13, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	65 min
May 13, 11:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	26 min
May 13, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Coryell	3 hr
May 14, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	49 min
May 14, 12:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
May 14, 12:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins	3 hr
May 14, 12:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls	2 hr
May 14, 1:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls	25 min
May 14, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, McLennan	31 min
May 14, 1:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill	114 min
May 14, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	51 min
May 14, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	58 min
May 14, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	30 min
May 14, 4:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton	2 hr
May 14, 5:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	23 min
May 14, 5:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	41 min
May 14, 6:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	27 min
May 14, 6:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	44 min
May 14, 6:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	40 min
May 14, 6:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	34 min
May 14, 6:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	55 min
May 14, 7:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	2 hr
May 14, 7:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill, Navarro	117 min
May 14, 8:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson	3 hr
May 14, 8:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	2 hr
May 14, 8:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	32 min
May 14, 9:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	31 min
May 14, 9:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	116 min
May 14, 2:00 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	6 hr
May 14, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	25 min
May 14, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	34 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.