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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2013, 3:33 PM CDT for Eastland County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 20, 2013, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2013, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eastland County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 20, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 20, 3:06 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 3:06 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 20, 2:49 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 249 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-211215- 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- 249 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG THE DRYLINE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL MOVE EAST AND NORTHEAST ACROSS MAINLY THE WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN PARTS OF THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE HIGHEST CHANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO DENTON TO GRANBURY TO KILLEEN. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. AS THE STORMS HEAD EAST INTO MORE STABLE AIR ACROSS CENTRAL PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS...THEY SHOULD WEAKEN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA TUESDAY AND INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. A SQUALL LINE MAY ORGANIZE ALONG A COLD FRONT DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND PRODUCE A SWATH OF DAMAGING WIND AS IT HEADS EAST AND SOUTHEAST. LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE TO BE THREATS IN ANY STORM THAT IS SEPARATED FROM THE LINE. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY MORNING GENERALLY NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON IN WESTERN COUNTIES...SPREADING EAST OVERNIGHT AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS. 92
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 20, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1255 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1130 PM TSTM WND DMG KENNEDALE 32.65N 97.22W
05/15/2013 TARRANT TX PUBLIC
ROOF PEALED OFF A BUILDING WITH INTERIOR DAMAGE. PUBLIC
STORAGE UNTIS NEXT DOOR LAST WALLS AND ROOFS.Local storm report, May 20, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1256 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1256 PM TSTM WND DMG KENNEDALE 32.65N 97.22W
05/20/2013 TARRANT TX PUBLIC
ROOF PEALED OFF A BUILDING WITH INTERIOR DAMAGE. PUBLIC
STORAGE UNTIS NEXT DOOR LAST WALLS AND ROOFS.Local storm report, May 20, 12:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1256 PM CDT MON MAY 20 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1256 PM TSTM WND DMG KENNEDALE 32.65N 97.22W
05/15/2013 TARRANT TX PUBLIC
ROOF PEALED OFF A BUILDING WITH INTERIOR DAMAGE. PUBLIC
STORAGE UNTIS NEXT DOOR LAST WALLS AND ROOFS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 58 min |
| May 20, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 52 min |
| May 20, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Young | 60 min |
| May 20, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 50 min |
| May 20, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 58 min |
| May 20, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Montague | 63 min |
| May 20, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 53 min |
| May 20, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 46 min |
| May 20, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 55 min |
| May 20, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 61 min |
| May 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Montague | 119 min |
| May 20, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 62 min |
| May 20, 6:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 4 hr |
| May 20, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 53 min |
| May 20, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 63 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.