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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 13, 2008Rains County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2008, 10:59 PM CDT for Rains County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
Mar 13, 2008, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 2008, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Rains County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 13, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 300 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2008-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 110 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2008-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 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 Mar 13, 9:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 9:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
904 PM CDT THU MAR 13 2008

.UPDATE...
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM 50-60 MILES NORTH OF THE RED RIVER
OVER SOUTHEAST OKLAHOMA. SINCE THE NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES REMAIN IN
AN AREA OF LIFT...WE WILL KEEP THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
/WW109/ GOING FOR ANOTHER COUPLE OF HOURS. OTHERWISE...THE DRY
LINE HAS NEARLY STALLED ALONG THE I-35 CORRIDOR...EXTENDING JUST
EAST OF GAINESVILLE....DFW...KILLEEN LINE AS OF 02Z. THE DEWPOINT
AT DFW FELL FROM 58 DEGREES TO 49 DEGREES BETWEEN 01 AND 02Z.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES HAVE ENDED FOR TONIGHT FARTHER TO THE
SOUTHWEST...SO HAVE JUST LEFT A MENTION OF ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE WATCH AREA...AND THE EXTREME EASTERN ZONES. #58

&&

.SHORT TERM...

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  54  85  52  72  47 /  10   5   5   5   5
WACO, TX              53  90  54  78  48 /  10   5   5   0   5
PARIS, TX             52  79  51  68  43 /  10  10  10   5   5
DENTON, TX            51  84  50  70  43 /  10   5   5   5   5
MCKINNEY, TX          50  83  50  70  43 /  10   5   5   5   5
DALLAS, TX            56  85  52  72  47 /  10   5   5   5   5
TERRELL, TX           55  83  53  73  46 /  10   5   5   5   5
CORSICANA, TX         56  84  55  76  48 /  10   5   5   5   5
TEMPLE, TX            58  90  57  79  51 /  10   5   5   0   5

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
RED FLAG WARNING FROM 12 PM FRIDAY TO 4 AM CDT SATURDAY FOR THE
FOLLOWING ZONES: TXZ100>102-115>118-129>133-141>145-156>160-174.

&&

58/58
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 5:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
517 PM CDT THU MAR 13 2008

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-142030-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-
NAVARRO-FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-
LIMESTONE-LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
517 PM CDT THU MAR 13 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 1 AM FOR LOCATIONS
ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM...TO GREENVILLE..TO SULPHUR
SPRINGS.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ALONG AND EAST OF A
SHERMAN...TO WAXAHACHIE...TO LAMPASAS LINE. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS
HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

VERY HIGH FIRE DANGER CONTINUES THROUGH 7 PM FOR LOCATIONS WEST OF
INTERSTATE 35.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT
OVER MUCH OF THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS DUE TO STRONG AND
GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS. THIS IS AN EXTREME
CRITICAL FIRE DANGER DAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON NORTHEAST OF A
SHERMAN...GREENVILLE...TO ATHENS LINE. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AT THIS
TIME...TOO MANY UNCERTAINTIES EXIST TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE WEATHER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION EAST OF LINE FROM SHERMAN...TO
WAXAHACHIE...TO LAMPASAS IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

82/JLD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 13, 10:10 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar62 min
Mar 13, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins, Lamar29 min
Mar 13, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRains31 min
Mar 13, 11:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDVan Zandt36 min
Mar 13, 11:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.