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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 466, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 28, 2011Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 28, 2011, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2011, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 28, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1494 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2011-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 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
1494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 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 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 28, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 2:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
251 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-291200-
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-
251 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
NORTHEAST OF A BOWIE...TO DENTON...TO DALLAS...TO CANTON LINE
THROUGH THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND
POSSIBLY HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH STORMS THAT DO OCCUR.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING EAST OF A SHERMAN...ROCKWALL...MEXIA LINE. ANY STORMS
COULD BECOME BRIEFLY STRONG OR MARGINALLY SEVERE WITH DOWNBURST
WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING.

ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH
DAY THIS WEEKEND AND ON THE FOURTH OF JULY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF
OF NORTH TEXAS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED NORTHEAST OF A BOWIE...
TO DENTON...TO DALLAS...TO CANTON LINE THROUGH THIS EVENING.

05/

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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.