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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 29, 201213 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this high wind warning at May 29, 2012, 11:08 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 112 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 29, 2012, 11:08 PM CDT (04:08 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 112 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

073 
WWUS74 KFWD 300408
NPWFWD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1108 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012


TXZ101>105-117>123-134-300600-
/O.NEW.KFWD.HW.W.0002.120530T0408Z-120530T0600Z/
JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-HUNT-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-ROCKWALL-
KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-ELLIS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKSBORO...DECATUR...BRIDGEPORT...
DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...THE COLONY...PLANO...
GREENVILLE...COMMERCE...WEATHERFORD...BRIAR...FORT WORTH...
ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...TERRELL...KAUFMAN...FORNEY...
WILLS POINT...CANTON...GRAND SALINE...VAN...EDGEWOOD...EMORY...
POINT...EAST TAWAKONI...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...
GLENN HEIGHTS
1108 PM CDT TUE MAY 29 2012

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY. 

* TIMING...IMMEDIATELY THROUGH 1 AM CDT. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO
  DISSIPATE AFTER 1 AM CDT.

* WINDS...SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

* IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS ARE BEING DRAGGED DOWN TO THE GROUND ALL
  AROUND THE METROPLEX AND INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDORS. THIS IS THE
  RESULT OF RAIN FALLING FROM HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS EVAPORATING BEFORE
  IT REACHES THE SURFACE. WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY TO
  PRODUCE DAMAGE TO SMALL TREES...FENCES AND OUTDOOR FURNITURE.

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.

&&

$$

CAVANAUGH

1 follow-up statement

706 
WWUS74 KFWD 300552 AAA
NPWFWD

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1252 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

TXZ101>105-117>123-134-300700-
/O.EXP.KFWD.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120530T0600Z/
JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-HUNT-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-ROCKWALL-
KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-ELLIS-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JACKSBORO...DECATUR...BRIDGEPORT...
DENTON...LEWISVILLE...FLOWER MOUND...THE COLONY...PLANO...
GREENVILLE...COMMERCE...WEATHERFORD...BRIAR...FORT WORTH...
ARLINGTON...DALLAS...ROCKWALL...TERRELL...KAUFMAN...FORNEY...
WILLS POINT...CANTON...GRAND SALINE...VAN...EDGEWOOD...EMORY...
POINT...EAST TAWAKONI...WAXAHACHIE...ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...
GLENN HEIGHTS
1252 AM CDT WED MAY 30 2012

...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 1 AM CDT EARLY THIS MORNING...

HIGH WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH COLLAPSING THUNDERSTORMS HAVE
DIMINISHED ACROSS THE AREA AND THE HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE
AT 1 AM. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE FROM SOUTHERN
OKLAHOMA INTO NORTH TEXAS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

$$

DUNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 8:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	35 min
May 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	23 min
May 29, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	47 min
May 29, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	56 min
May 29, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	40 min
May 30, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	29 min
May 30, 1:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise	26 min
May 30, 1:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	23 min
May 30, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	34 min
May 30, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	58 min
May 30, 1:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	35 min
May 30, 2:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	53 min
May 30, 2:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	36 min
May 30, 3:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	31 min
May 30, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	35 min
May 30, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	31 min
May 30, 3:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	37 min
May 30, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rockwall	35 min
May 30, 4:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Wise	29 min
May 30, 4:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	32 min
May 30, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	58 min
May 30, 5:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Rockwall	29 min
May 30, 5:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	27 min
May 30, 5:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	36 min
May 30, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	57 min
May 30, 5:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Rockwall	27 min
May 30, 6:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	32 min
May 30, 7:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	30 min
May 30, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	29 min
May 30, 10:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	23 min
May 30, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	35 min
May 30, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton	44 min
May 30, 10:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	25 min
May 30, 11:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	28 min
May 30, 12:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall	24 min
May 30, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	31 min
May 30, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	24 min
May 30, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	32 min
May 30, 1:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
May 30, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	47 min
May 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rockwall	32 min

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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.