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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 2, 2012Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Apr 2, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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 2, 2012, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2012, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 2, 3:07 PM CDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 3:07 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 3:13 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
156 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

TXZ123-021930-
RAINS TX-
156 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EASTERN RAINS COUNTY

AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
EMORY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE EMORY.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA TO
PENNY-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS.

IF STORMS WERE TO INTENSIFY...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE
NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3272 9564 3271 9566 3274 9570 3277 9579
      3298 9588 3298 9567 3293 9565 3277 9563
      3273 9563
TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 155DEG 14KT 3274 9566

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
210 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

TXZ107-021945-
HOPKINS TX-
210 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EASTERN HOPKINS COUNTY

AT 209 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
WINNSBORO TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SULPHUR SPRINGS...MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS INCLUDE SULPHUR
SPRINGS...COMO...AND COOPER LAKE PARK SOUTH SULPHUR.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA TO
PENNY-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM
THIS CLUTER OF STORMS.

IF THESE STORMS WERE TO INTENSIFY...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY
BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3296 9531 3296 9543 3331 9565 3335 9561
      3336 9554 3335 9552 3335 9549 3337 9546
      3337 9541 3337 9532 3329 9530 3297 9530
TIME...MOT...LOC 1909Z 152DEG 21KT 3303 9535

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:37 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
237 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

TXZ105-123-022000-
HUNT TX-RAINS TX-
237 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HUNT COUNTY
  NORTHWESTERN RAINS COUNTY

AT 237 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL 13 MILES NORTH OF WILLS
POINT...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE CAMPBELL...EAST TAWAKONI...
GREENVILLE AND WEST TAWAKONI.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA TO
PENNY-SIZED HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM
THIS CLUSTER OF STORMS.

IF STORMS WERE TO INTENSIFY...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3284 9590 3283 9596 3284 9605 3319 9612
      3319 9586 3301 9586
TIME...MOT...LOC 1937Z 175DEG 21KT 3292 9595

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:39 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
239 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

TXZ095-106-022015-
DELTA TX-LAMAR TX-
239 PM CDT MON APR 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  EASTERN DELTA COUNTY
  SOUTHERN LAMAR COUNTY

AT 239 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL 12 MILES EAST OF
COOPER...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BLOSSOM...ROXTON...DEPORT
AND PARIS.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3371 9531 3337 9531 3336 9534 3337 9540
      3337 9546 3335 9549 3335 9552 3336 9554
      3336 9559 3334 9562 3364 9580
TIME...MOT...LOC 1939Z 175DEG 21KT 3339 9549

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 3:06 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 2, 3:20 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 12:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	35 min
Apr 2, 12:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	32 min
Apr 2, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	35 min
Apr 2, 1:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	35 min
Apr 2, 1:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	27 min
Apr 2, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	59 min
Apr 2, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	34 min
Apr 2, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	35 min
Apr 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	31 min
Apr 2, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	66 min
Apr 2, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt	23 min
Apr 2, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	36 min
Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta	45 min
Apr 2, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	24 min
Apr 2, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	34 min
Apr 2, 4:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	33 min
Apr 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	35 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.