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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2013, 12:49 PM CDT for Coryell County, Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- May 9, 2013, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2013, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Coryell County, TX, Hamilton County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -390 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 9, 10:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 10:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 408 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2013 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101100- 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- 408 AM CDT THU MAY 9 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. SOME STORMS SOUTH OF AN EASTLAND TO GLEN ROSE TO PALESTINE LINE WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER INTO SATURDAY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A COMANCHE TO ATHENS LINE. THERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 10:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 25 min |
| May 9, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 26 min |
| May 9, 11:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 30 min |
| May 9, 11:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 9, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 39 min |
| May 9, 11:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 35 min |
| May 9, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 61 min |
| May 9, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 27 min |
| May 9, 1:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 23 min |
| May 9, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 31 min |
| May 9, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, McLennan | 63 min |
| May 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 23 min |
| May 9, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Milam | 61 min |
| May 9, 2:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 109 min |
| May 9, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 59 min |
| May 9, 4:08 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 3 hr |
| May 9, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 52 min |
| May 9, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 31 min |
| May 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 29 min |
| May 9, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 3 hr |
| May 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 35 min |
| May 9, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 58 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.