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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 16, 2010Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2010, 5:28 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 36 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
May 16, 2010, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 2010, 6:04 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Hamilton County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 368 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2324 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
2324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
7.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 4:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills37 min
May 16, 4:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque31 min
May 16, 4:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills32 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton36 min
May 16, 5:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills26 min
May 16, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque43 min
May 16, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill, Johnson55 min
May 16, 5:55 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills35 min
May 16, 6:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque33 min
May 16, 6:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton27 min
May 16, 6:27 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque33 min
May 16, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.