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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 11, 2009Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2009, 5:37 PM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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 11, 2009, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2009, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Mills County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 2:32 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 193 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 2009-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1544 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 2009-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 544 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
544 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
715 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.1
Supercell composite
55.5

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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 11, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
337 PM CDT THU JUN 11 2009

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0334 PM     HAIL             CISCO                   32.38N  98.98W
06/11/2009  E1.75 INCH       EASTLAND           TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN CISCO
Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:54 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 11, 5:05 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Hamilton55 min
Jun 10, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson53 min
Jun 10, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson55 min
Jun 10, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche59 min
Jun 10, 7:33 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Dallas3 hr
Jun 10, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman, Rockwall39 min
Jun 10, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Hunt61 min
Jun 10, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton, Mills65 min
Jun 10, 7:56 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDComanche, Erath, Hamilton3 hr
Jun 10, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Rockwall17 min
Jun 10, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt60 min
Jun 10, 8:03 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Kaufman, Rockwall3 hr
Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 10, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Fannin, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains, Van Zandt84 min
Jun 10, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro57 min
Jun 10, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills56 min
Jun 10, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson, Van Zandt48 min
Jun 10, 9:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker27 min
Jun 10, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar17 min
Jun 10, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell62 min
Jun 10, 9:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto25 min
Jun 10, 9:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFreestone33 min
Jun 10, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker58 min
Jun 10, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant66 min
Jun 10, 10:42 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell2 hr
Jun 10, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Falls, Milam30 min
Jun 10, 10:47 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDTarrant118 min
Jun 10, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant62 min
Jun 10, 11:30 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDallas3 hr
Jun 11, 12:48 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman27 min
Jun 11, 2:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson26 min
Jun 11, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson23 min
Jun 11, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis39 min
Jun 11, 2:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant118 min
Jun 11, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Tarrant66 min
Jun 11, 2:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas6 hr
Jun 11, 2:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas63 min
Jun 11, 3:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman58 min
Jun 11, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman119 min
Jun 11, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson, Tarrant64 min
Jun 11, 3:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson66 min
Jun 11, 3:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman46 min
Jun 11, 4:32 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton58 min
Jun 11, 4:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro66 min
Jun 11, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis31 min
Jun 11, 4:53 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson37 min
Jun 11, 4:55 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDEllis3 hr
Jun 11, 5:00 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas30 min
Jun 11, 5:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Henderson54 min
Jun 11, 5:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Limestone, Navarro53 min
Jun 11, 5:46 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDenton, Tarrant, Wise3 hr
Jun 11, 5:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson53 min
Jun 11, 6:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton32 min
Jun 11, 6:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Denton53 min
Jun 11, 7:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas7 hr
Jun 11, 7:22 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin113 min
Jun 11, 7:22 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman23 min
Jun 11, 7:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung32 min
Jun 11, 7:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas29 min
Jun 11, 7:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
Jun 11, 8:04 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas53 hr
Jun 11, 8:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack36 min
Jun 11, 8:23 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDTarrant112 min
Jun 11, 8:30 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas3 hr
Jun 11, 8:31 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson29 min
Jun 11, 8:56 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas34 min
Jun 11, 9:04 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker26 min
Jun 11, 9:11 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton3 hr
Jun 11, 9:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas51 min
Jun 11, 9:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker30 min
Jun 11, 9:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson23 min
Jun 11, 9:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman62 min
Jun 11, 10:04 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
Jun 11, 10:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant64 min
Jun 11, 10:41 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
Jun 11, 10:52 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas6 hr
Jun 11, 10:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson32 min
Jun 11, 11:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson41 min
Jun 11, 11:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDVan Zandt37 min
Jun 11, 11:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Rockwall4 hr

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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.