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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 31, 2012Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2012, 7:11 AM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 31, 2012, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2012, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

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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: 1951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

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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 Mar 31, 6:14 AM CDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 6:14 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
614 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

.AVIATION...
THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT CONCERNS THIS MORNING FOR THE AVIATION
COMMUNITY. FIRST...A THUNDERSTORM IS PUSHING SOUTH OF THE RED
RIVER NEAR FANNIN COUNTY. CURRENTY MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WILL
KEEP IT AWAY FROM TAF SITES AND AM NOT EXPECTING ANY ADDITIONAL
ACTIVITY TO AFFECT THE TAF SITES.

VISIBILITIES HAVE DROPPED INTO MVFR CATEGORIES FOR MOST OF THE
SITES...WITH PATCHY IFR VISIBILITIES TO THE WEST. VISIBILITIES
WILL LIKELY REMAIN IN MVFR...BUT WE COULD SEE IFR BRIEFLY...
ESPECIALLY IN WACO.

THERE IS A SWATH OF IFR CIGS IN CENTRAL TEXAS MOVING NORTH AND
CURRENT EXTRAPOLATION BRINGS THESE INTO WACO AROUND 13Z. WILL
INCLUDE THESE IFR CIGS FROM 13Z-16Z...AND THEN EXPECT THEM TO
LIFT/SCATTER.

THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE NICE WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES PREVAILING
AND LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY SURFACE WINDS CONTINUING. ANOTHER ROUND
OF REDUCED VISIBILITIES/CEILINGS IS LIKELY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.

85/NH

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 426 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012/
WELL DEFINED UPPER TROUGH AXIS ORIENTED ALONG A LINE FROM CHICAGO
TO OKC TO MIDLAND IS DROPPING SOUTHEAST AND WILL PUSH THROUGH THE
REGION TODAY. WHILE SURFACE PARCELS ARE STRONGLY CAPPED...A SMALL
PLUME OF HIGHER 700-850 MB MOISTURE IS MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH THE
RED RIVER VALLEY. THIS MOISTURE WILL COMBINE WITH THE UPPER
FORCING TO GENERATE SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
ZONES THIS MORNING. STEEP LAPSE RATES ARE CONTRIBUTING TO ELEVATED
CAPE VALUES OF 1500 J/KG AND THESE STORMS MAY POSE A HAIL RISK.
SINCE THERE IS AN ABSENCE OF 700-850MB MOISTURE OUTSIDE OF THE
NORTHEAST ZONES...THE PASSAGE OF THE TROUGH AXIS SHOULD BE
INCONSEQUENTIAL AND DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL OVER THE
REMAINDER OF THE CWA. WILL NEED TO MENTION SOME PATCHY FOG THROUGH
THE MID MORNING HOURS...BUT OTHERWISE GENERALLY SUNNY SKIES ARE
EXPECTED TODAY. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE WARMER THAN YESTERDAY DUE TO
MORE SUNSHINE AND INCREASING LOW LEVEL THICKNESS VALUES.

UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL TRANSLATE ACROSS THE PLAINS ON SUNDAY
WITH CONTINUED SUBSIDENCE WARMING RESULTING IN 850MB TEMPS OF
20-23C OVER THE CWA. THIS SHOULD SUPPORT HIGH TEMPS IN THE MID
90S IN THE WEST TO UPPER 80S IN THE EAST. MAV MOS IS EVEN WARMER
THAN THIS FORECAST INDICATES...BUT IT HAS BEEN RUNNING A WARM BIAS
FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS. SINCE SURFACE WINDS STAY SOUTH AND DO NOT
GO WESTERLY...WE SHOULD NOT REALIZE THE FULL POTENTIAL OF THE WARM
850 MB TEMPS AND RECORD HIGHS SHOULD BE SAFE. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL
QUICKLY SLIDE OFF TO THE EAST AS THE NEXT TROUGH MOVES INTO THE
WESTERN US. MODEL GUIDANCE HAS HAD TROUBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM FOR
SEVERAL DAYS...BUT CONFIDENCE IS GROWING THAT AN UPPER LOW SHOULD
CLOSE OFF AT THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AND TRACK THROUGH THE SOUTHERN
PLAINS MIDWEEK. MODELS HAVE ALL SLOWED DOWN THE SPEED OF THE
LOW...BUT STILL DIFFER ON ITS LATITUDE. THE GFS IS THE FARTHEST
NORTH WITH A TRACK THROUGH KANSAS WHILE THE CANADIAN HAS A TRACK
ALONG THE RED RIVER. THE ECMWF IS PREFERRED AS IT LIES IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE PACK. THIS MEANS THE ECMWF BRINGS MORE COOL AIR DOWN
AND THE GFS MOS TEMPS LOOK MUCH TOO WARM BEYOND TUESDAY. OUR
UNSEASONABLY WARM WEATHER SHOULD COME TO AN END AFTER MONDAY.

CONCERNING THE RAIN CHANCES EARLY IN THE WEEK...THE UPPER LOW
SHOULD BE IN NEW MEXICO MONDAY AND BEST FORCING WILL NOT ARRIVE
UNTIL MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. A DRY LINE WILL BE OVER THE
WESTERN ZONES MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THE
FORCING WILL REACH FAR ENOUGH EAST FOR CONVECTION TO BREAK OUT
MONDAY EVENING OR WAIT UNTIL TUESDAY. RIGHT NOW THERE IS MODEL
AGREEMENT IN DYNAMIC LIFTING/EROSION OF THE CAP AFTER SUNSET
MONDAY AND CONVECTION ALONG THE DRY LINE MONDAY NIGHT. CAPES WILL
LIKELY BE NEAR 3000 J/KG AND SUPPORT SOME THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER. SINCE THE UPPER LOW IS SO FAR WEST...THE MID-UPPER LEVEL
SPEED MAX WILL LAG BEHIND AND DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS ON THE LOW END
OF THE SPECTRUM FOR SUPERCELL ORGANIZATION. ALSO WINDS ABOVE 500MB
ARE NOTABLY WEAK...SUGGESTING CELLS WILL HAVE TROUBLE EVACUATING
PRECIPITATION AWAY FROM THE MAIN UPDRAFT. SOME BRIEF HP SUPERCELLS
MAY BE POSSIBLE EARLY MONDAY EVENING...BUT BY IN LARGE THE SETUP
FAVORS MULTICELL CLUSTERS/LINES WITH HAIL/WIND THE PRIMARY THREAT.
AS LONG AS VIGOROUS CONVECTION INDEED DEVELOPS MONDAY NIGHT...THIS
WOULD PUSH EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF THE CWA BY TUESDAY MORNING AND
EFFECTIVELY END CHANCES FOR MORE STORMS TUESDAY EVEN IF THE
FRONT/DRY LINE HAVE NOT YET PUSHED THROUGH THE CWA. IF THE
CONVECTIVE EVENT ON MONDAY NIGHT IS LIMITED AND UNORGANIZED...THEN
THE STORM EVENT MAY END UP BEING TUESDAY AND FOR LOCATIONS
PRIMARILY EAST OF I-35. WILL FAVOR THE WIDESPREAD MONDAY NIGHT
CONVECTIVE SCENARIO NOW...BUT HEDGE THE FORECAST BY INCREASING
POPS TO 20-30 PERCENT ON TUESDAY.

TR.92

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  86  67  90  67  86 /   5   0   0   5  20
WACO, TX              87  66  89  67  84 /   5   0   0   5  10
PARIS, TX             84  65  87  64  84 /  20   5   0   5  10
DENTON, TX            84  66  91  68  85 /   5   0   0   5  20
MCKINNEY, TX          83  63  88  67  85 /  10   0   0   5  10
DALLAS, TX            86  67  89  67  86 /  10   0   0   5  10
TERRELL, TX           84  66  88  67  83 /  10   5   0   5  10
CORSICANA, TX         86  66  87  67  82 /  10   5   0   5  10
TEMPLE, TX            88  65  89  67  85 /   5   0   0   5  10
MINERAL WELLS, TX     89  63  94  65  87 /   0   0   0   5  20

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

85/85

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 5:37 AM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
537 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-011045-
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-
537 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING NORTH OF A
SHERMAN TO EMORY LINE. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD WITH
THE STRONGEST STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
TUESDAY EVENING ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. THE BEST CHANCES WILL
BE MONDAY EVENING AND SOME STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE IN THIS TIME FRAME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE NORTH OF A SHERMAN TO EMORY LINE
THIS MORNING.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 6:12 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
612 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

TXZ094-311145-
FANNIN TX-
612 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHERN FANNIN COUNTY

AT 611 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF BONHAM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DODD CITY AND HONEY GROVE.

PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3386 9587 3385 9585 3367 9585 3353 9592
      3358 9618 3369 9633 3377 9630 3376 9619
      3380 9616 3381 9618 3384 9615 3385 9601
      3388 9598 3387 9595 3389 9592
TIME...MOT...LOC 1111Z 292DEG 21KT 3375 9619

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 7:11 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
711 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

TXZ095-311245-
LAMAR TX-
711 AM CDT SAT MAR 31 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN LAMAR COUNTY

AT 711 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF PARIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH.

PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITY OF ROXTON AROUND 730 AM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3371 9567 3348 9536 3347 9560 3348 9560
      3347 9568 3349 9578 3346 9582 3346 9585
      3347 9586 3373 9585
TIME...MOT...LOC 1211Z 298DEG 24KT 3361 9583

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 6:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	33 min
Mar 31, 7:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	47 min
Mar 31, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	26 min
Mar 31, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	34 min
Mar 31, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	25 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.