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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 2013, 2:51 AM CST for Falls County, McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 10, 2013, 2:51 AM CST (08:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Falls County, TX, McLennan County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 9, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:33 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 728 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 777 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 Feb 10, 2:48 AM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 2:48 AM CST, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 314 PM CST SAT FEB 9 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101230- 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- 314 PM CST SAT FEB 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS EVENING. LATER TONIGHT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTH TEXAS AFTER MIDNIGHT AND SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD STILL BE OCCURRING OVER THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES AFTER DAYBREAK SUNDAY...BUT THEY ARE EXPECTED TO EXIT THE REGION BY MID MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... INITIALLY IN AREAS WEST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR...THEN IN AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR FROM 3 AM THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 12:59 AM CST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Feb 10, 12:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 48 min |
| Feb 10, 12:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 12:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 31 min |
| Feb 10, 1:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 62 min |
| Feb 10, 1:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 1:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Somervell | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 2:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 2:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 2:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 2:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 2:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 2:46 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 59 min |
| Feb 10, 2:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 66 min |
| Feb 10, 3:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 34 min |
| Feb 10, 3:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 3:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 62 min |
| Feb 10, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 3:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 3:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Milam | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 4:22 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 23 min |
| Feb 10, 4:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 4:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam | 67 min |
| Feb 10, 5:00 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 30 min |
| Feb 10, 5:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 37 min |
| Feb 10, 5:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 34 min |
| Feb 10, 5:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon, Limestone | 49 min |
| Feb 10, 6:02 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 28 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.