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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 8, 2012Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 11:26 PM CDT for Ellis 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: Aug 8, 2012, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Ellis County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 Aug 8, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 9:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 9:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
900 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-100200-
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-
900 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
TEXAS WITH THE BEST CHANCES BEING EAST OF A GAINESVILLE TO CANTON
LINE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE DAMAGING DOWNBURST
WINDS AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.
THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY
WITH STORM CHANCES DECREASING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THURSDAY NIGHT
THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS...SOME HAIL AND
FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED EAST OF A GAINESVILLE TO
CANTON BEFORE MIDNIGHT.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 6:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
648 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

TXZ117-118-131-133-090015-
HOOD TX-JOHNSON TX-TARRANT TX-PARKER TX-
648 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN HOOD COUNTY
  NORTHWESTERN JOHNSON COUNTY
  SOUTHEASTERN PARKER COUNTY
  SOUTHWESTERN TARRANT COUNTY

AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENBROOK...STATIONARY.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ALEDO...BENBROOK AND GODLEY.

VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3270 9738 3252 9739 3237 9758 3259 9784
      3273 9757
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 180DEG 2KT 3257 9762

Local storm report, Aug 8, 7:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
717 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2012

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0713 PM     TSTM WND GST     9 S ALEDO               32.57N  97.60W
08/08/2012  E60 MPH          PARKER             TX   PUBLIC

            50 TO 60 MPH AND NICKEL HAIL REPORTED BY PUBLIC NEAR
            BEAR CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH

Local storm report, Aug 8, 7:21 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
721 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2012

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 PM     HAIL             9 S ALEDO               32.57N  97.60W
08/08/2012  E1.00 INCH       PARKER             TX   PUBLIC

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 8:07 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
807 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

TXZ095-090145-
LAMAR TX-
807 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012

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

AT 808 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF HUGO...MOVING SOUTH AT 35 MPH.

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

PENNY-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM.

IF THIS STORM CONTINUES ON ITS PRESENT COURSE...A SEVERE WEATHER
WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3393 9555 3389 9554 3390 9551 3388 9549
      3387 9542 3388 9531 3349 9531 3347 9569
      3349 9578 3346 9585 3384 9585 3387 9581
      3385 9577 3390 9575 3389 9569 3394 9560
TIME...MOT...LOC 0108Z 339DEG 28KT 3391 9575

CAVANAUGH

Local storm report, Aug 8, 9:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
902 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2012

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0855 PM     TSTM WND DMG     10 WNW PARIS            33.71N  95.69W
08/08/2012                   LAMAR              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 11:26 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
Aug 8, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	29 min
Aug 8, 8:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	38 min
Aug 8, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	58 min
Aug 8, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	33 min
Aug 9, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	30 min
Aug 9, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	31 min
Aug 9, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	36 min
Aug 9, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	40 min
Aug 9, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	36 min
Aug 9, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	38 min
Aug 9, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	33 min
Aug 9, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	35 min
Aug 9, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	32 min
Aug 9, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	26 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.