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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 62 min |
| Mar 13, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 29 min |
| Mar 13, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 11:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 36 min |
| Mar 13, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 25 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.