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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2009, 6:20 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Mar 26, 2009, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2009, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:22 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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Mar 26, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 26, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 347 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-271215- 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- 347 PM CDT THU MAR 26 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS...WITH THE GREATEST CHANCES EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN FRIDAY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND A COLD FRONT ARE EXPECTED TO GUST AS HIGH AS 50 MPH ACROSS NORTH TEXAS TOMORROW. ADDITIONALLY...LIGHT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG THE RED RIVER FRIDAY NIGHT. NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. A WIDESPREAD FROST IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT WITH A FEW LOCATIONS DROPPING BELOW FREEZING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT EAST OF I-35 AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED GENERALLY EAST OF I-35. 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 14 hr |
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.