Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2013, 5:55 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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 26, 2013, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cooke County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
668
WUUS54 KFWD 262255
SVRFWD
TXC097-270000-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0252.131026T2255Z-131027T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
555 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
COOKE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR FORESTBURG TO NEAR
GAINESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
LINDSAY AROUND 635 PM...
CALLISBURG AROUND 700 PM...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AND
STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
&&
LAT...LON 3386 9694 3342 9695 3344 9749 3372 9749
3380 9719 3372 9715 3372 9711 3375 9709
3380 9710 3383 9705
TIME...MOT...LOC 2254Z 249DEG 15KT 3356 9741
$$
DUNN2 follow-up statements
565
WWUS54 KFWD 262316
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
616 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013
TXC097-270000-
/O.CON.KFWD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-131027T0000Z/
COOKE TX-
616 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHERN COOKE COUNTY...
AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES EAST
OF VALLEY VIEW TO 17 MILES WEST OF VALLEY VIEW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
EXTREME SOUTHERN COOKE COUNTY...NEAR THE DENTON COUNTY LINE AT 620 PM
LAT...LON 3361 9749 3364 9734 3362 9725 3360 9712
3361 9707 3360 9695 3342 9695 3344 9748
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 300DEG 23KT 3344 9694 3347 9745
$$491
WWUS54 KFWD 262353
SVSFWD
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
653 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013
TXC097-270003-
/O.EXP.KFWD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-131027T0000Z/
COOKE TX-
653 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN COOKE COUNTY EXPIRES
AT 700 PM CDT...
AT 653 PM CDT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING MOVED
OUT OF THE AREA AND THE WARNING EXPIRED.
RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3361 9749 3364 9734 3362 9725 3360 9712
3361 9707 3360 9695 3342 9695 3344 9748
TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 300DEG 23KT 3332 9669 3335 9720
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 28 min |
| Oct 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 36 min |
| Oct 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Montague | 2 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 58 min |
| Oct 26, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 63 min |
| Oct 26, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 29 min |
| Oct 26, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 28 min |
| Oct 26, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton | 52 min |
| Oct 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 46 min |
| Oct 26, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 27 min |
| Oct 26, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 37 min |
| Oct 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 61 min |
| Oct 26, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 59 min |
| Oct 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Wise | 61 min |
| Oct 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Comanche, Hamilton | 60 min |
| Oct 26, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 64 min |
| Oct 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.