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Wind Advisory 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 7, 200829 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Oct 7, 2008, 6:26 AM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It took effect at Oct 7, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 7, 2008, 6:26 AM CDT (11:26 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 7, 2008, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired
Oct 7, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 29 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 54 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1452 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2008-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 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
1452 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
6.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Oct 7, 3:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 7, 3:20 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 7, 1:10 AM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 7:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker36 min
Oct 6, 7:15 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDFreestone, Limestone3 hr
Oct 6, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRobertson32 min
Oct 6, 7:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker35 min
Oct 6, 7:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone46 min
Oct 6, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise42 min
Oct 6, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLeon, Robertson48 min
Oct 6, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone, Henderson53 min
Oct 6, 8:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath27 min
Oct 6, 8:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills29 min
Oct 6, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson40 min
Oct 6, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFreestone, Leon45 min
Oct 6, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton28 min
Oct 6, 9:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin25 min
Oct 6, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin37 min
Oct 6, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson19 min
Oct 6, 9:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque, Somervell31 min
Oct 6, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Leon59 min
Oct 6, 10:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLampasas30 min
Oct 6, 10:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson58 min
Oct 6, 11:54 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro36 min
Oct 7, 1:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson, Van Zandt35 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.