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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 23, 2014Jack County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2014, 10:11 PM CDT for Jack County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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: Apr 23, 2014, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Jack County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Apr 23, 9:55 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 9:55 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 23, 3:01 PM CDT, 7 hours 10 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
301 PM CDT WED APR 23 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-241230-
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-
301 PM CDT WED APR 23 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF STORMS THIS EVENING THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS
ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS
WILL BE FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM BONHAM TO
FORT WORTH TO COMANCHE. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO
SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSING THE PRIMARY
HAZARDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EAST OF I-35 THURSDAY. THESE
STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF STORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
TEXAS FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE DAY ON SUNDAY. THE BEST
CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS ON SATURDAY WILL BE FOR AREAS GENERALLY
ALONG AND NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO COMANCHE. SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS SATURDAY NIGHT
THROUGH SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS EVENING NORTHWEST OF A
LINE FROM BONHAM TO FORT WORTH TO COMANCHE.

CAVANAUGH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 23, 9:29 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 23, 9:46 PM CDT, 25 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 23, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	47 min
Apr 23, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	46 min
Apr 23, 10:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	25 min
Apr 23, 11:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	35 min
Apr 24, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	31 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.