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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 12, 2012Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 12, 2012, 8:49 PM CDT for Comanche 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: Aug 12, 2012, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2012, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Comanche County, TX

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The text

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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 12, 8:23 PM CDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 8:23 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 8:21 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 7:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
733 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012

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

0700 PM     TSTM WND DMG     EAGLE MOUNTAIN          32.89N  97.44W
08/12/2012                   TARRANT            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            MARINA SUFFERED ROOF AND DOCK DAMAGE.

Local storm report, Aug 12, 8:19 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
819 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012

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

0816 PM     TSTM WND GST     5 SW MIDLOTHIAN         32.43N  97.04W
08/12/2012  M80 MPH          ELLIS              TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            80 MPH WIND GUST 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF VENUS

Local storm report, Aug 12, 8:21 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 12, 8:31 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 12, 8:47 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 8:49 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
849 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012

TXZ141-130215-
COMANCHE TX-
849 PM CDT SUN AUG 12 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  COMANCHE COUNTY

AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DUBLIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE COMANCHE AND GUSTINE.

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

LAT...LON 3211 9845 3194 9832 3198 9826 3195 9823
      3184 9816 3170 9845 3170 9848 3172 9849
      3170 9866 3199 9885
TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 324DEG 19KT 3199 9846

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	67 min
Aug 12, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	71 min
Aug 12, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	68 min
Aug 12, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	68 min
Aug 12, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	35 min
Aug 12, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	32 min
Aug 12, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	60 min
Aug 12, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	63 min
Aug 12, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	54 min
Aug 13, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	33 min
Aug 13, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.