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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 14, 2012Hood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 9:36 PM CDT for Hood County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
Jul 14, 2012, 9:36 PM CDT (02:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Hood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 2012-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 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 2012-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 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 Jul 14, 9:27 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:27 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 6:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
639 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151216-
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-
639 PM CDT SAT JUL 14 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT GENERALLY EAST OF A BOWIE TO
STEPHENVILLE TO GOLDTHWAITE LINE. A FEW STORMS WILL BECOME STRONG
WITH GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN....AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
SUNDAY AND MONDAY. LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 8:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 9:36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Grayson41 min
Jul 14, 7:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton63 min
Jul 14, 7:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas, Rockwall50 min
Jul 14, 7:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant, Wise60 min
Jul 14, 8:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman26 min
Jul 14, 8:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas, Ellis29 min
Jul 14, 8:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker32 min
Jul 14, 8:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson29 min
Jul 14, 8:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro34 min
Jul 14, 9:01 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill29 min
Jul 14, 9:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill28 min
Jul 15, 12:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDSomervell27 min
Jul 15, 12:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHood, Somervell37 min
Jul 15, 12:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCoryell, Hamilton61 min
Jul 15, 1:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Erath, Somervell40 min
Jul 15, 1:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton57 min
Jul 15, 1:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson24 min
Jul 15, 2:10 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas35 min
Jul 15, 3:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDallas28 min
Jul 15, 3:15 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDComanche, Eastland30 min
Jul 15, 3:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis33 min
Jul 15, 3:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell30 min
Jul 15, 3:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant27 min
Jul 15, 3:52 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell113 min
Jul 15, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis34 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman32 min
Jul 15, 4:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBell26 min
Jul 15, 4:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMcLennan33 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDMcLennan116 min
Jul 15, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman25 min
Jul 15, 5:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell119 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.