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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 7, 2012Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at May 7, 2012, 12:34 AM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
May 7, 2012, 12:34 AM CDT (05:34 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Eastland County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 190 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-368 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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 May 7, 12:05 AM CDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 12:05 AM CDT, 29 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 3:54 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
354 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-071200-
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-
354 PM CDT SUN MAY 6 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 ALONG THE DRYLINE AND
NORTH OF INTERSTATE 20 TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT ACROSS ALL
OF NORTH TEXAS. A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING
ACROSS PRIMARILY WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS.

DUNN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 9:34 PM CDT, 3 hours before
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Special weather statement, May 6, 10:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 7, 12:24 AM CDT, 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 7, 12:34 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 7:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung35 min
May 6, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung62 min
May 6, 7:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens28 min
May 6, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens66 min
May 6, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young63 min
May 6, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens56 min
May 6, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Palo Pinto, Parker63 min
May 6, 9:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland29 min
May 6, 9:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant26 min
May 6, 9:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto37 min
May 6, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker57 min
May 6, 10:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung30 min
May 7, 12:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton36 min
May 7, 1:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCoryell, Hamilton25 min
May 7, 5:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas25 min
May 7, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton23 min
May 7, 6:22 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro23 min
May 7, 6:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman30 min
May 7, 6:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis27 min
May 7, 6:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro24 min
May 7, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro64 min
May 7, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDErath31 min
May 7, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt57 min
May 7, 6:54 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHamilton3 hr

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.