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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this high wind warning at May 4, 2012, 10:20 PM CDT for Ellis County, Johnson County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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 4, 2012, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2012, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
Counties Ellis County, TX, Johnson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 2627 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
799 WWUS74 KFWD 050320 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1020 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 TXZ133-134-050430- /O.NEW.KFWD.HW.W.0001.120505T0320Z-120505T0400Z/ JOHNSON-ELLIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE... ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...GLENN HEIGHTS 1020 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...NOW THROUGH 11 PM CDT. * WINDS...50 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED AS RAIN DISSIPATES. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES AND TREES IS LIKELY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE LIKELY. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE...KNOCK DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. SEEK A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$ 85/NH
1 follow-up statement
152 WWUS74 KFWD 050403 NPWFWD URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1103 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... .THE EVENT THAT PRODUCED 50 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS HAS DISSIPATED. THUS THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TXZ133-134-050515- /O.EXP.KFWD.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120505T0400Z/ JOHNSON-ELLIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLEBURNE...BURLESON...WAXAHACHIE... ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...GLENN HEIGHTS 1103 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE EVENT THAT PRODUCED 50 TO 60 MPH WIND GUSTS HAS DISSIPATED. THUS THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood | 22 min |
| May 4, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 38 min |
| May 4, 7:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 23 min |
| May 4, 7:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 34 min |
| May 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 19 min |
| May 4, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant | 66 min |
| May 4, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 60 min |
| May 4, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 55 min |
| May 4, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 50 min |
| May 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 57 min |
| May 4, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 67 min |
| May 4, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 58 min |
| May 4, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 26 min |
| May 4, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson | 52 min |
| May 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 63 min |
| May 4, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 34 min |
| May 4, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 31 min |
| May 4, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mills | 27 min |
| May 4, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 28 min |
| May 4, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Denton, Grayson | 26 min |
| May 4, 10:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Rockwall | 23 min |
| May 4, 10:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 36 min |
| May 4, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 57 min |
| May 4, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 38 min |
| May 4, 11:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 28 min |
| May 5, 12:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 23 min |
| May 5, 12:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 31 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.