Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2008, 9:36 PM CDT for Bell County, Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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
- May 14, 2008, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2008, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bell County, TX, Milam County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 9:42 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Holland, TX | PUBLIC REPORT OF PENNY HAIL NEAR HWY 95 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KFWD 150236
SVRFWD
TXC027-331-150330-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0310.080515T0236Z-080515T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
936 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
MILAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
* AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLAND...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ROGERS BY 950 PM
THORNDALE BY 1010 PM
CAMERON BY 1020 PM
ROCKDALE BY 1030 PM
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
LAT...LON 3074 9727 3083 9751 3107 9722 3083 9677
3047 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0236Z 297DEG 26KT 3082 9742
$$
252 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KFWD 150256
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
955 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
TXC027-331-150330-
/O.CON.KFWD.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080515T0330Z/
BELL TX-MILAM TX-
955 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR MILAM AND SOUTHEASTERN BELL COUNTIES...
AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 3
MILES SOUTH OF ROGERS...MOVING EAST AT 31 MPH. NICKEL-SIZE HAIL WAS
REPORTED IN LITTLE RIVER ACADEMY AT 953 PM. A CARPORT WAS DAMAGED IN
SALADO EARLIER WITH THIS STORM.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BUCKHOLTS AND THORNDALE BY 1005 PM CDT...
CAMERON BY 1020 PM CDT...
ROCKDALE BY 1025 PM CDT...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3074 9727 3082 9749 3107 9722 3093 9696
3092 9696 3092 9695 3083 9677 3047 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0255Z 288DEG 27KT 3087 9721
$$000
WWUS54 KFWD 150311
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1011 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
TXC027-150321-
/O.CAN.KFWD.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080515T0330Z/
BELL TX-
1011 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BELL COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3074 9727 3078 9732 3098 9713 3099 9711
3093 9696 3092 9696 3083 9677 3047 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0311Z 288DEG 27KT 3083 9708
$$
TXC331-150330-
/O.CON.KFWD.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-080515T0330Z/
MILAM TX-
1011 PM CDT WED MAY 14 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CDT
FOR MILAM COUNTY...
AT 1011 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUCKHOLTS...MOVING EAST AT 31 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CAMERON BY 1020 PM CDT...
ROCKDALE BY 1025 PM CDT...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR EASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3074 9727 3078 9732 3098 9713 3099 9711
3093 9696 3092 9696 3083 9677 3047 9715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0311Z 288DEG 27KT 3083 9708
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 42 min |
| May 14, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 40 min |
| May 14, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 30 min |
| May 14, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 41 min |
| May 14, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 37 min |
| May 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 25 min |
| May 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 30 min |
| May 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 62 min |
| May 14, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 39 min |
| May 14, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 28 min |
| May 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 51 min |
| May 14, 9:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| May 14, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 min |
| May 14, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 28 min |
| May 14, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 61 min |
| May 14, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Johnson, Rockwall | 64 min |
| May 14, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 54 min |
| May 14, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 48 min |
| May 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 56 min |
| May 14, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 43 min |
| May 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone | 2 hr |
| May 15, 12:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Robertson | 115 min |
| May 15, 12:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 23 min |
| May 15, 12:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 7 hr |
| May 15, 12:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Leon | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 30 hr |
| May 15, 1:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 32 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.