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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 12, 2009Hill County, Johnson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2009, 8:56 PM CDT for Hill County, Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 12, 2009, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Hill County, TX, Johnson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 12, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 2009-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3698 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 2009-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
3698 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
13.8

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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 12, 5:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 5:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
553 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009

.AVIATION...
SCT...SVR STORMS DEVELOPED OFF W-CENTRAL TX DRYLINE AS EXPECTED...THOUGH
ONE SUPERCELL DEVELOPED FURTHER EAST OVER JACK CO AND IS NOW MOVING
SE AROUND 10-15 KTS AND HAVE JUST AMD ALL D/FW TAF SITES FOR ARRIVAL
OF STORMS WITH TEMPO IFR/GUSTY NW WINDS BTWN 23Z- 01Z...WITH LINGERING
VCSH LATER THIS EVE TOWARD 06Z. THIS WILL GIVE THE AIRPORTS FITS FOR
THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND WILL LIKELY COORD AND ISSUE AWW IN NEXT 15 MINS
AFTER COORD CALLS. OTRW...VFR CONDS WITH SELY FLOW 8-12 KTS EXPECTED
OVRNGT THROUGH SAT AS BROAD LOW PRESSURE SITUATES OVER W TX/PANHANDLE
REGION IN VCNTY OF DRYLINE. NEW 00Z TAF ISSUANCE LIKELY WILL REMAIN
THE SAME...JUST WITH ADDITIONAL TIME FCST FRO 21Z SAT-06Z SUN.

05/

&&

.UPDATE...
WE/VE EXPANDED THE TORNADO WATCH EASTWARD A FEW COUNTIES. IT NOW
RUNS WEST OF A SHERMAN-DENNISON TO WAXAHACHIE...GATESVILLE...
LAMPASAS LINE.

CLUSTER OF STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER JACK COUNTY WILL MOVE
EAST ABOUT 15 MPH AND THROUGH WISE COUNTY. WE ARE EXPECTING THIS
MOVEMENT TO BECOME MORE SOUTHEASTERLY WITH TIME AND HEAD FOR THE
NORTHERN METROPLEX 700-730 PM. 75

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 358 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009/
THUNDERSTORMS ARE JUST STARTING TO FIRE ALONG THE DRYLINE AS OF
2045Z. A TORNADO WATCH HAS RECENTLY BEEN ISSUED TO COVER THE
WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF A
GAINESVILLE...WEATHERFORD...LAMPASAS LINE. THESE STORMS SHOULD
MOVE EAST AT 20-25 MPH...WITH THE SUPERCELLS TRACKING SOUTHEAST.
HAVE KEPT THE BEST POPS FOR THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF
OF NORTH TEXAS TEXAS. WE WILL SEE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS AREAWIDE TOMORROW AND TOMORROW NIGHT. CHANCES
SUNDAY WILL ONLY BE ALONG THE RED RIVER. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL
BUILD IN MONDAY THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK...WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS
IN THE 90S TO AROUND 100 DEGREES...AND MORNING LOWS IN THE 70S.

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&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  77  96  76  97  76 /  30  20  30  10  10
WACO, TX              78  98  76  98  76 /  20  20  20  10   5
PARIS, TX             74  94  74  94  74 /  30  20  30  20  10
DENTON, TX            76  96  74  97  74 /  30  20  30  10  10
MCKINNEY, TX          75  96  74  96  72 /  30  20  30  20  10
DALLAS, TX            79  96  78  97  78 /  30  20  30  10   5
TERRELL, TX           76  96  76  96  75 /  30  20  20  10   5
CORSICANA, TX         75  97  75  96  75 /  20  20  20  10   5
TEMPLE, TX            74  97  74  97  74 /  20  20  20  10   5

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

05/75
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
345 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131100-
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-
345 PM CDT FRI JUN 12 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
TORNADOES. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP.

HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH THE TRIPLE DIGITS IN SOME LOCATIONS
THIS WEEKEND...THEN BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD DURING THE FORTHCOMING
WEEK. AT TIMES...HEAT INDEX VALUES MAY REACH 105 DEGREES OR MORE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS EVENING...PRIMARILY WEST OF THE
I-35 CORRIDOR. ADDITIONAL ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED ELSEWHERE.

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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker37 min
Jun 12, 7:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHood22 min
Jun 12, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood66 min
Jun 12, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker62 min
Jun 12, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Somervell71 min
Jun 12, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood29 min
Jun 12, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant28 min
Jun 12, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque44 min
Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill51 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.