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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 10, 2011, 8:13 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2011, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2011, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
County Cooke County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 10, 6:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 6:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 603 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 .UPDATE... WILL UPDATE TO ADD SOME POPS ONE ROW OF COUNTIES FARTHER WEST SINCE REFLICTIVITY STARTING TO APPEAR IN JACK COUNTY. 84 && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 340 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011/ IT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE TO CALL THE SURFACE BOUNDARY THAT HAS ENTERED OUR NW CWA A WEAK COLD FRONT AND NOT A DRY LINE...AS PRESSURE RISES HAVE BEEN OCCURRING BEHIND IT WITH SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR ADVECTING SE. THIS WEAK FRONT IS NOW STALLING ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS TO BROWNWOOD. MEANWHILE A POSITIVE TILT UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE PLAINS TONIGHT WITH PV AT THE BASE OF THE TROUGH PROVIDING STRONG FORCING ACROSS OUR REGION. MUCH OF THIS FORCING WILL BE SPENT REMOVING THE CAP...BUT AS THE WARMER AIR IS LIFTED ALOFT...MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL SUBSEQUENTLY WEAKEN. CIN SHOULD ERODE ALONG THE FRONT BY SUNSET AND EXPECT SCATTERED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP THEREAFTER. THERE WILL BE A SMALL CORRIDOR AND LIMITED TIME WINDOW WHEN SURFACE BASED CONVECTION IS POSSIBLE. SURFACED BASED CONVECTION WILL POSE THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER TONIGHT AS IT WILL HAVE THE HIGHER INSTABILITY TO WORK WITH. THIS THREAT IS POSSIBLE /BUT NOT PROBABLE/ ROUGHLY 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM CLEBURNE TO SHERMAN...AND BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 6 AND 9 PM. OTHERWISE EXPECT MOST OF THE CONVECTION TO BE PRIMARILY ELEVATED THIS EVENING...WITH UNSTABLE PARCELS GENERALLY ORIGINATING IN THE 750-800 MB LAYER. THESE PARCELS WILL CONTAIN CAPE VALUES AROUND 500-1000J/KG...SO NOT OVERLY HIGH. DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS VERY STRONG...AND THUS ISOLATED SUPERCELLS WILL BE POSSIBLE EVEN IF THEY ARE SLIGHTLY ELEVATED. THE CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPS ALONG THE FRONT SHOULD HEAD EAST AND INTO A REGION OF HIGHER CIN ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES AND LIKELY WEAKEN AND PERHAPS DISSIPATE AS STORMS OUT-RUN THE UPPER LEVEL FORCING. THIS IS WHAT THE RUC/HRRR HAS BEEN INDICATING. THUS THE BEST POPS AND HIGHEST QPF WILL BE IN A BAND BISECTING THE CWA FROM SW TO NE...OR JUST EAST OF THE STALLED FRONT. LATER TONIGHT A PLUME OF HIGHER MOISTURE ALOFT SHOULD PROVIDE FOR SOME CLOUD COVER AND LIGHT SHOWERS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. IN THE DRIER AIR MASS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...MUCH OF THIS WILL EVAPORATE...BUT DO HAVE LOW POPS THERE AS WELL. ALL RAIN SHOULD CLEAR THE AREA WEST TO EAST LATE TONIGHT...BUT WILL HAVE SOME LOW POPS IN THE FAR EAST EARLY MON AM. GENERALLY SUNNY SKIES AND MODEST NW WINDS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY WITH COOLER HIGH TEMPERATURES. SURFACE RIDGE WILL SIT OVER NORTH TEXAS MONDAY NIGHT AND EXCELLENT RADIATIONAL COOLING SHOULD BRING LOW TEMPS DOWN INTO THE 40S FOR MOST LOCATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND. ANOTHER NICE DAY IS EXPECTED TUESDAY AS WINDS QUIETLY SWING AROUND TO THE SOUTHEAST. STRONGER SOUTH WINDS AND MORE MOISTURE/WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NEXT UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE PLAINS THURSDAY AND PUSH A FRONT THROUGH HERE THURSDAY EVENING. MOISTURE LOOKS A BIT TOO LIMITED FOR ANY GOOD RAIN WITH THIS SYSTEM...AND WILL CONTINUE WITH VERY LOW POPS EAST OF I-35. LOOKING AT THE BROADER FLOW IT APPEARS A PATTERN CHANGE WILL OCCUR WITH THE MAIN UPPER HIGHS/LOWS SHIFTING POSITIONS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. THIS LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BRING SOME COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION FOR A FEW DAYS FRIDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WHETHER THIS PATTERN CHANGE RESULTS IN ANY BETTER CHANCES OF RAIN REMAINS TO BE SEEN. TR.92 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX 60 79 52 81 56 / 60 10 0 0 0 WACO, TX 60 80 48 81 54 / 50 10 0 0 0 PARIS, TX 64 76 48 76 51 / 60 20 0 0 0 DENTON, TX 55 78 43 81 52 / 50 5 0 0 0 MCKINNEY, TX 60 78 43 79 50 / 60 10 0 0 0 DALLAS, TX 62 79 54 81 57 / 60 10 0 0 0 TERRELL, TX 62 77 48 80 54 / 50 10 0 0 0 CORSICANA, TX 64 80 52 80 55 / 50 10 0 0 0 TEMPLE, TX 60 82 49 81 54 / 50 10 0 0 0 MINERAL WELLS, TX 51 78 46 80 51 / 20 5 0 0 0 && .FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && /
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 10, 7:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 707 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111100- 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- 707 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 123 IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM FOR COUNTIES ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM LAMPASAS TO HILLSBORO TO COOPER. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A COLD FRONT ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS EVENING AND LATER TONIGHT AS THEY SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER HAZARDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 ON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 7:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
705 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
TXZ101-116-110030-
JACK TX-PALO PINTO TX-
705 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EASTERN JACK COUNTY
PALO PINTO COUNTY
AT 706 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTH OF MINERAL WELLS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE GORDON...GRAFORD...
JACKSBORO...MINERAL WELLS AND POSSUM KINGDOM STATE PARK.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3290 9857 3296 9848 3295 9842 3299 9842
3344 9795 3344 9793 3301 9792 3300 9805
3261 9806 3254 9810 3253 9856
TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 223DEG 29KT 3300 9808
85/NHSpecial weather statement, Apr 10, 7:17 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
TXZ091-101-102-110045-
MONTAGUE TX-JACK TX-WISE TX-
717 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
EASTERN JACK COUNTY
SOUTHERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
NORTHWESTERN WISE COUNTY
AT 718 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALVORD...BOWIE...
BRIDGEPORT...CHICO...BOONSVILLE AND FORESTBURG.
PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3358 9751 3320 9769 3301 9793 3300 9816
3333 9811 3372 9773
TIME...MOT...LOC 0018Z 213DEG 44KT 3337 9789Special weather statement, Apr 10, 7:42 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
742 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
TXZ091-092-110115-
MONTAGUE TX-COOKE TX-
742 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
WESTERN COOKE COUNTY
EASTERN MONTAGUE COUNTY
AT 743 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTH OF DECATUR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
55 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BOWIE...GAINESVILLE...
LINDSAY...MUENSTER...ST. JO AND FORESTBURG.
PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3392 9750 3389 9745 3383 9744 3383 9739
3385 9736 3373 9715 3343 9717 3344 9778
3348 9790 3391 9759 3391 9755 3393 9751
TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 230DEG 50KT 3348 9753
85/NHLocal storm report, Apr 10, 8:02 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 10, 8:13 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
813 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
TXZ092-110145-
COOKE TX-
813 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2011
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
COOKE COUNTY
AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF GAINESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CALLISBURG...GAINESVILLE...
LINDSAY AND MUENSTER.
PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM. PEA-SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NORTH OF MUENSTER AT 810 PM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY
MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3395 9698 3390 9694 3367 9694 3355 9710
3343 9748 3386 9748 3383 9739 3389 9731
3388 9726 3391 9719 3385 9716 3383 9720
3377 9719 3373 9715 3373 9710 3380 9710
3382 9706 3385 9709 3385 9702
TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 233DEG 37KT 3365 9723
85/NHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 25 min |
| Apr 10, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 59 min |
| Apr 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 57 min |
| Apr 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 8:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 8:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto | 26 min |
| Apr 10, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 9:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 22 min |
| Apr 10, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 36 min |
| Apr 10, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 59 min |
| Apr 10, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 11:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 26 min |
| Apr 10, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton, Parker, Wise | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 68 min |
| Apr 10, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 37 min |
| Apr 11, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 20 min |
| Apr 11, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 58 min |
| Apr 11, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 41 min |
| Apr 11, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 21 min |
| Apr 11, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Navarro | 51 min |
| Apr 11, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 43 min |
| Apr 11, 1:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 25 min |
| Apr 11, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 2:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Dallas, Kaufman | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 2:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 35 min |
| Apr 11, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 56 min |
| Apr 11, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Hunt | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 3:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 4:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 23 min |
| Apr 11, 4:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 5:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 25 min |
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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.