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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 14, 201430 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this freeze warning at Apr 14, 2014, 3:13 AM CDT for 30 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2014, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 15, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 15, 2014, 9:02 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

All 30 counties

Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 1547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 7.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 13, 11:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 11:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 9:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 9:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
914 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0857 PM     HAIL             6 N POTTSBORO           33.84N  96.67W
04/13/2014  E0.75 INCH       GRAYSON            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 9:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
919 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ093-094-140245-
FANNIN TX-GRAYSON TX-
919 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  NORTHERN FANNIN COUNTY
  EAST CENTRAL GRAYSON COUNTY

AT 918 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF DENISON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE DENISON.

PEA-SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM.

IF THIS STORM INTENSIFIES...A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3356 9594 3363 9638 3370 9661 3383 9659
      3382 9652 3378 9650 3379 9642 3370 9636
      3370 9632 3377 9629 3376 9619 3380 9616
      3381 9618 3384 9615 3386 9588
TIME...MOT...LOC 0218Z 277DEG 41KT 3376 9644

Special weather statement, Apr 13, 10:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 11:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 11:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 12:27 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 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
Apr 13, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	24 min
Apr 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	26 min
Apr 13, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	55 min
Apr 13, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	66 min
Apr 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Montague, Wise	61 min
Apr 13, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	63 min
Apr 13, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	26 min
Apr 13, 9:26 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	24 hr
Apr 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	65 min
Apr 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	50 min
Apr 13, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	30 min
Apr 13, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hunt, Lamar	28 min
Apr 13, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hunt	33 min
Apr 14, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	33 min
Apr 14, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	34 min
Apr 14, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	32 min
Apr 14, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	58 min
Apr 14, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	61 min
Apr 14, 9:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	33 min
Apr 14, 9:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	58 min
Apr 14, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	47 min
Apr 14, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	23 min
Apr 14, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, McLennan	60 min
Apr 14, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	56 min
Apr 14, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	23 min
Apr 14, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	36 min
Apr 14, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	26 min
Apr 14, 3:19 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Dallas, Ellis, Falls, Freestone and 10 more	18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every freeze warning in 2014

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.