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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 2008, 1:53 PM CST for Collin County, Dallas County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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
- Feb 5, 2008, 1:53 PM CST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 2:40 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 711 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Feb 5, 12:06 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 12:06 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 5, 1:41 PM CST, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 141 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-061945- 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- 141 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE EXPECTED EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL TO BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED... AS A STRONG COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVE ACROSS THE AREA. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD EXIT THE REGION BY SUNSET THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED ACTIVITY POSSIBLE FROM PARIS TO CENTERVILLE THROUGH 8 PM. A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM FOR WEST AND SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...DUE TO GUSTY NORTHWEST AND WEST WINDS BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH AND LOWER HUMIDITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF NORTH TEXAS ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...DUE TO BREEZY WEST AND NORTHWEST WINDS AND HUMIDITIES FALLING TO...OR BELOW 30 PERCENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 FOR SEVERE STORMS ALONG A COLD FRONT. 05/
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 5, 1:02 PM CST, 51 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Feb 5, 1:35 PM CST, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
135 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
TXZ104-052000-
COLLIN TX-
135 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
NORTHERN COLLIN COUNTY
AT 135 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCKINNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 40 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ANNA...LOWRY CROSSING AND
PRINCETON.
ONE-HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED
FROM THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3325 9673 3340 9658 3340 9639 3336 9638
3334 9636 3335 9633 3334 9629 3310 9653
TIME...MOT...LOC 1935Z 221DEG 41KT 3326 9658Special weather statement, Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
137 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
TXZ145-052000-
HILL TX-
137 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
WESTERN HILL COUNTY
AT 137 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILLSBORO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CARLS CORNER...
COVINGTON...HILLSBORO...ITASCA AND WHITNEY.
ONE 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 3179 9726 3209 9745 3223 9731 3225 9719
3226 9718 3226 9714 3227 9712 3227 9708
3211 9697
TIME...MOT...LOC 1937Z 221DEG 48KT 3219 9718
DUNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2:05 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 32 min |
| Feb 5, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 3:26 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | FWD | Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Erath and 10 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 1:35 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 1:37 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 23 min |
| Feb 5, 1:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 50 min |
| Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 41 min |
| Feb 5, 2:09 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:11 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls | 34 min |
| Feb 5, 2:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Kaufman | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro | 49 min |
| Feb 5, 2:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains | 31 min |
| Feb 5, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone, Navarro | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar | 38 min |
| Feb 5, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 3:45 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 30 min |
| Feb 5, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson, Van Zandt | 33 min |
| Feb 5, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 48 min |
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.