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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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.
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 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.
- 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
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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</html>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. 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hood | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 30 min |
| Jun 1, 8:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 10:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Mills | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 8:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 67 min |
| Jun 2, 8:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 8:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 8:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 8:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 9:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Rockwall | 32 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.