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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 26, 2013McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2013, 8:25 PM CDT for McLennan 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 26, 2013, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2013, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 Oct 26, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 26, 6:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 26, 2:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
200 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-271200-
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-
200 PM CDT SAT OCT 26 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FEW STORMS COULD BE SEVERE
WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY. BEST CHANCES APPEAR TO BE
WEDNESDAY INTO EARLY THURSDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE DURING
THIS TIME INCLUDING THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH THIS EVENING.

DUNN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 26, 5:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 26, 5:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 26, 5:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 26, 5:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 26, 5:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 26, 6:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 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
Oct 26, 7:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	35 min
Oct 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	33 min
Oct 26, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	65 min
Oct 26, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	30 min
Oct 26, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	66 min
Oct 26, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	27 min
Oct 26, 8:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Oct 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	60 min
Oct 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton	60 min
Oct 26, 8:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
Oct 26, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	61 min
Oct 26, 8:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	65 min
Oct 26, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls	53 min
Oct 26, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	49 min
Oct 26, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	59 min
Oct 26, 10:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Falls	3 hr
Oct 26, 11:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	24 min
Oct 26, 11:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	31 min
Oct 26, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	58 min
Oct 26, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2013 Every 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.