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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 2009Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2009, 5:35 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 85 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
Jun 2, 2009, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2009, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Eastland County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1040 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 12:00Z on 2009-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1040 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
320 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031100-
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-
320 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...MOST LIKELY
NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GRAHAM TO DENISON. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY
BE SEVERE THIS EVENING...PARTICULARLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
GRAHAM...TO MINERAL WELLS...TO LAMPASAS. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL
BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...THOUGH A TORNADO THREAT EXISTS
AS WELL.

MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AFTER
MIDNIGHT...AS A COLD FRONT ENTERS NORTH TEXAS. SOME OF THE STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE...PARTICULARLY NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR...
WHERE STORM CHANCES ARE THE GREATEST.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL COME TO AN END ON WEDNESDAY AS A COLD
FRONT MOVES THROUGH NORTH TEXAS. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL
CONTINUE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE PRIMARY THREATS.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE FORECAST MONDAY NEXT WEEK.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING...
PRIMARILY WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAHAM...TO MINERAL WELLS...TO
LAMPASAS. ADDITIONAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE DURING THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS (AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH DAYBREAK)...MAINLY
NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:11 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHood2 hr
Jun 1, 7:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson23 min
Jun 1, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDSomervell30 min
Jun 1, 8:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDSomervell25 min
Jun 1, 10:31 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDMills119 min
Jun 2, 8:17 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDJohnson, Tarrant67 min
Jun 2, 8:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin27 min
Jun 2, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas, Ellis, Johnson58 min
Jun 2, 8:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFannin37 min
Jun 2, 8:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt61 min
Jun 2, 9:28 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRockwall32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.