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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 6, 2013Palo Pinto County, Stephens County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2013, 12:38 AM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Stephens County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 6, 2013, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2013, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Palo Pinto County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Young County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 5, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 353 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Jun 5, 11:51 PM CDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:51 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 12:38 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 11:46 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:15 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 12:25 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	58 min
Jun 5, 11:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	29 min
Jun 6, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens, Young	60 min
Jun 6, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	64 min
Jun 6, 1:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	64 min
Jun 6, 1:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Stephens, Wise and 1 more	54 min
Jun 6, 2:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Mills	92 min
Jun 6, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Jack, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	65 min
Jun 6, 2:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	29 min
Jun 6, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	55 min
Jun 6, 3:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton	30 min
Jun 6, 3:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	115 min
Jun 6, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke	2 hr
Jun 6, 4:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	31 min
Jun 6, 4:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Grayson	2 hr
Jun 6, 5:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	32 min
Jun 6, 6:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	35 min
Jun 6, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman	42 min
Jun 6, 6:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	35 min
Jun 6, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	64 min
Jun 6, 7:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Lamar	29 min
Jun 6, 7:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	23 min
Jun 6, 7:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	34 min
Jun 6, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	30 min
Jun 6, 1:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	25 min
Jun 6, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	35 min
Jun 6, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	65 min
Jun 6, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	36 min
Jun 6, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	22 min
Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.