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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2008, 5:41 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 17, 2008, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hunt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 576 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 17, 3:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 322 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-181200- 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- 322 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE MODERATE RISK IS ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A GRAHAM TO FORT WORTH TO WACO TO TEMPLE LINE. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REST OF NORTH TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ALONG A DRYLINE OVER WEST CENTRAL TEXAS AND EXPAND EASTWARD TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL...GREATER THAN 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THE GREATEST TORNADO THREAT IS ALONG AND WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR...WHERE AN ISOLATED STRONG TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER...HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY OVERNIGHT. THERE IS FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ONGOING TUESDAY MORNING WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE...MAINLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE THREATS. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE TO FORT WORTH TO GAINESVILLE LINE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS ALSO A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATER THIS EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DUNN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 5:37 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
537 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXZ105-172300-
HUNT TX-
537 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
HUNT COUNTY
AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTH OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CAMPBELL...COMMERCE...
GREENVILLE AND QUINLAN.
HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
LAT...LON 3295 9625 3341 9587 3340 9586 3306 9587
3284 9608
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 216DEG 47KT 3297 9610
DUNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 35 min |
| Mar 17, 9:53 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 66 hr |
| Mar 17, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar | 52 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.