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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2013, 5:02 PM CDT for Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2013, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 15, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 357 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-161115- 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- 357 PM CDT WED MAY 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY WEST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER THURSDAY MORNING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS AND WILL EXIT THE REGION TO THE NORTHEAST THURSDAY AFTERNOON. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN WEST OF A LAMPASAS TO BOWIE LINE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS LATE SUNDAY AND AGAIN MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY NORTHWEST OF A GOLDTHWAITE... FORT WORTH...SHERMAN LINE THROUGH THIS EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS THE REST OF NORTH TEXAS LATE EVENING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 15, 2:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 29 min |
| May 15, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins | 28 min |
| May 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 50 min |
| May 15, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 36 min |
| May 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 24 min |
| May 15, 5:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 23 min |
| May 15, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 64 min |
| May 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 46 min |
| May 15, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood | 60 min |
| May 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 55 min |
| May 15, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 65 min |
| May 15, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 43 min |
| May 15, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 51 min |
| May 15, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague, Wise | 49 min |
| May 15, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 63 min |
| May 15, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 61 min |
| May 15, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton, Mills | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.