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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 10, 201037 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at May 10, 2010, 3:49 AM CDT for 37 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 10, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2010, 3:49 AM CDT (08:49 UTC)
In effect from
May 10, 2010, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired
May 10, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 37 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2010-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2010-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 357 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
357 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
603 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 9, 11:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 11:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 10:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson30 min
May 9, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson40 min
May 9, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin33 min
May 9, 10:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta29 min

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.