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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 9, 2014Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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, 2014, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2014, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 378 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.1

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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 May 9, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 9, 4:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 9, 4:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 4:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 5:14 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 5:26 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 5:27 PM CDT, 13 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
May 8, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	58 min
May 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	65 min
May 8, 7:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Navarro	115 min
May 8, 7:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	38 min
May 8, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Freestone, Limestone	56 min
May 8, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	61 min
May 8, 7:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	2 hr
May 8, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	64 min
May 8, 8:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	2 hr
May 8, 8:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	116 min
May 8, 8:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	34 min
May 8, 9:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson	2 hr
May 8, 9:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	30 min
May 8, 10:46 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	17 hr
May 9, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	27 min
May 9, 9:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	32 min
May 9, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Smith	29 min
May 9, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	37 min
May 9, 4:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	38 min
May 9, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	29 min
May 9, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	31 min
May 9, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	34 min
May 9, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	33 min
May 9, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	53 min
May 9, 6:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	34 min
May 9, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	61 min
May 9, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	60 min
May 9, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	64 min
May 9, 6:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	30 min
May 9, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm 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.