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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 10, 2013, 3:47 AM CST for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Kaufman County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 10, 2:48 AM CST, 59 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 10, 3:20 AM CST, 27 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 320 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-111200- 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- 320 AM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS MORNING...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. TORNADIC STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY IN AREAS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM KILLEEN...TO MEXIA...TO PALESTINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THIS MORNING...MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. 25
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 54 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, 3:52 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.