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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2008, 11:49 PM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 14, 2008, 11:49 PM CDT (04:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2008, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Leon County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 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 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
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 14, 11:15 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 11:15 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 330 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151100- ANDERSON-BELL-BOSQUE-COLLIN-COMANCHE-COOKE-CORYELL-DALLAS-DELTA- DENTON-EASTLAND-ELLIS-ERATH-FALLS-FANNIN-FREESTONE-GRAYSON-HAMILTON- HENDERSON-HILL-HOOD-HOPKINS-HUNT-JACK-JOHNSON-KAUFMAN-LAMAR-LAMPASAS- LEON-LIMESTONE-MCLENNAN-MILAM-MILLS-MONTAGUE-NAVARRO-PALO PINTO- PARKER-RAINS-ROBERTSON-ROCKWALL-SOMERVELL-STEPHENS-TARRANT-VAN ZANDT- WISE-YOUNG- 330 AM CDT WED MAY 14 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY AND TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED BRIEF TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE...ALL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE TO DENTON TO PARIS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Milam | 54 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, 11:54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.