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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 11, 2012Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 11, 2012, 2:30 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 11, 2012, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2012, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Oct 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 12:57 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 11, 1:46 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 2:30 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
230 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2012

TXZ158-174-112000-
MILAM TX-BELL TX-
230 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  BELL COUNTY
  WEST CENTRAL MILAM COUNTY

AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF GRANGER...MOVING NORTH AT 20
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE BELTON...FORT HOOD...HARKER
HEIGHTS...HOLLAND...KILLEEN...LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY...MORGAN'S POINT
RESORT...NOLANVILLE...ROGERS...SALADO...TEMPLE AND TROY.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3065 9723 3074 9729 3083 9754 3087 9760
      3090 9782 3103 9791 3107 9791 3132 9742
      3124 9734 3128 9728 3099 9707 3098 9708
      3096 9700
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 191DEG 19KT 3083 9745

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 10, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	33 min
Oct 11, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	23 min
Oct 11, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.