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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 2013Hamilton County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 2, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
Jun 2, 2013, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2013, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Hamilton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2013-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 850 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2013-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
850 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

106 
WWUS84 KFWD 020708
SPSFWD

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
208 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 2013

TXZ143-020745-
HAMILTON TX-
208 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 2013

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  CENTRAL HAMILTON COUNTY

AT 208 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF HAMILTON...MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE HAMILTON.

PENNY-SIZED HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH CAN BE 
EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3172 9838 3182 9820 3185 9801 3163 9797
      3160 9841 3164 9844 3169 9845
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 262DEG 23KT 3170 9834

$$


82/JLD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 10:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMills26 min
Jun 1, 11:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson26 min
Jun 2, 12:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCherokee25 min
Jun 2, 12:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLampasas37 min
Jun 2, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHamilton31 min
Jun 2, 1:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBosque26 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.