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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 11, 2012Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Oct 11, 2012, 6:22 PM CDT for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2012, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 11, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
311 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2012

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-121200-
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-
311 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR SOUTH OF A COMANCHE...TO GLEN
ROSE...TO WAXAHACHIE...TO CANTON LINE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STORMS
COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE VERY GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST OF BONHAM...TO
DALLAS...TO MERIDIAN...TO GATESVILLE LINE ON SATURDAY.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS ALL OF NORTH
TEXAS SATURDAY NIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS
CONTAINING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE
NORTHWEST HALF OF THE AREA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORM
CHANCES SHIFT TO AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 ON SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED SOUTH OF
INTERSTATE 20 THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE THREAT OF STRONG DOWNBURST
WINDS.

05/

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 2:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 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

Special weather statement, Oct 11, 6:22 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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

TXZ146-112345-
NAVARRO TX-
622 PM CDT THU OCT 11 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NAVARRO COUNTY

AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORSICANA...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 20 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE ANGUS...BARRY...BLOOMING
GROVE...CORSICANA...DAWSON...KERENS AND NAVARRO.

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

LAT...LON 3181 9646 3180 9655 3181 9671 3207 9690
      3233 9638 3230 9630 3226 9628 3225 9624
      3220 9620 3221 9615 3217 9618 3215 9610
      3209 9612 3208 9607 3202 9605
TIME...MOT...LOC 2322Z 207DEG 19KT 3200 9659

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, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	30 min
Oct 11, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	29 min

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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.