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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 16, 2008Hopkins County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2008, 7:10 PM CDT for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 16, 2008, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Hopkins County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2008-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 428 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2008-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Jun 16, 6:29 PM CDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:29 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:04 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
704 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2008

TXZ095-170030-
LAMAR TX-
704 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN LAMAR COUNTY

AT 704 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF PARIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 8
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BLOSSOM AND DEPORT.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3338 9530 3340 9537 3343 9540 3343 9545
      3345 9549 3345 9552 3346 9553 3376 9552
      3375 9530
TIME...MOT...LOC 0004Z 323DEG 7KT 3366 9539

82/JLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLamar26 min
Jun 16, 7:26 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHopkins94 min
Jun 16, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins44 min
Jun 16, 8:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins115 min
Jun 16, 9:59 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr
Jun 17, 1:09 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDHopkins6 hr
Jun 17, 9:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke, Montague36 min
Jun 17, 10:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson29 min
Jun 17, 10:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke, Montague29 min
Jun 17, 10:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFannin32 min
Jun 17, 10:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton25 min
Jun 17, 11:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin25 min
Jun 17, 11:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Denton62 min
Jun 17, 11:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas, Tarrant29 min
Jun 17, 11:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker35 min
Jun 17, 11:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant60 min
Jun 17, 11:34 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Rockwall26 min
Jun 17, 11:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis, Johnson28 min
Jun 17, 11:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall54 min
Jun 17, 11:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson64 min
Jun 17, 11:57 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin3 hr
Jun 17, 12:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta, Hopkins33 min
Jun 17, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains, Van Zandt69 min
Jun 17, 12:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill29 min
Jun 17, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins66 min
Jun 17, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Kaufman, Navarro76 min
Jun 17, 1:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHopkins114 min
Jun 17, 1:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson67 min
Jun 17, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone34 min
Jun 17, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Leon69 min
Jun 17, 2:57 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDHopkins3 hr

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.