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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 3, 2008Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 3, 2008, 3:21 AM CST for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2008, 3:21 AM CST (09:21 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2008, 3:45 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 10.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 2, 11:11 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 11:11 PM CST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 12:57 AM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 3, 12:18 AM CST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 12:41 AM CST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 12:50 AM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 2:29 AM CST, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:05 AM CST, 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
305 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

TXZ142-031000-
MILLS TX-
305 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL MILLS COUNTY

AT 305 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF RICHLAND SPRINGS...MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GOLDTHWAITE AND MULLIN.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
PEA-MARBLE SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
EASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3142 9872 3141 9884 3146 9900 3148 9900
      3153 9894 3162 9879 3165 9842 3140 9845
      3129 9859
TIME...MOT...LOC 0905Z 247DEG 25KT 3142 9906

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 3:21 AM CST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
321 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

TXZ130-141-030945-
ERATH TX-COMANCHE TX-
321 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL COMANCHE COUNTY
  ERATH COUNTY

AT 321 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COMANCHE...AND 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF COMANCHE...BOTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DE LEON...COMANCHE...
GUSTINE...DUBLIN AND STEPHENVILLE.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND
PEA-MARBLE SIZED HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
EASTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3247 9807 3210 9790 3193 9852 3209 9862
TIME...MOT...LOC 0921Z 242DEG 42KT 3205 9847

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 6:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	27 min
Mar 2, 6:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	34 min
Mar 2, 6:48 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	27 min
Mar 2, 7:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	27 min
Mar 2, 7:52 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	23 min
Mar 2, 8:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	30 min
Mar 2, 8:11 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	34 min
Mar 2, 8:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	24 min
Mar 2, 9:06 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Stephens, Young	24 min
Mar 2, 9:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	23 min
Mar 2, 9:45 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	30 min
Mar 2, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	46 min
Mar 2, 10:03 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	27 min
Mar 2, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	45 min
Mar 2, 10:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	50 min
Mar 2, 11:07 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Wise	23 min
Mar 2, 11:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	35 min
Mar 2, 11:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	55 min
Mar 2, 11:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	61 min
Mar 3, 12:09 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Wise	36 min
Mar 3, 12:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	64 min
Mar 3, 12:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	29 min
Mar 3, 12:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Denton, Grayson	55 min
Mar 3, 2:29 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Brown	61 min
Mar 3, 3:05 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	55 min
Mar 3, 3:44 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	31 min
Mar 3, 3:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	27 min
Mar 3, 3:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Somervell	25 min
Mar 3, 4:30 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	33 hr
Mar 3, 4:52 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	23 min
Mar 3, 4:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan	62 min
Mar 3, 5:13 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	32 min
Mar 3, 5:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	29 min
Mar 3, 5:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	67 min
Mar 3, 5:45 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam, Robertson	30 min
Mar 3, 5:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	61 min
Mar 3, 6:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	29 min
Mar 3, 6:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	46 min
Mar 3, 6:21 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon, Robertson	24 min
Mar 3, 6:55 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	25 hr
Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	29 hr
Mar 3, 8:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	25 hr
Mar 3, 10:12 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, Falls, McLennan	33 min
Mar 3, 10:45 AM CST	Snow Advisory	FWD	Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 23 more	17 hr
Mar 3, 11:26 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	34 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.