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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 16, 2012Eastland County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 16, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 16, 2012, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Eastland County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 318 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: 1172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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 15, 6:37 PM CDT, 23 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:37 PM CDT, 23 hours 18 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
Jul 16, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	28 min
Jul 16, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	23 min
Jul 16, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	29 min
Jul 16, 5:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	32 min
Jul 16, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	23 min
Jul 16, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	25 min
Jul 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	23 min
Jul 16, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	31 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.