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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT for Limestone County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 12, 2014, 12:05 PM CDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2014, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Limestone County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1938 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 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 12, 10:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 10:39 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 5:12 AM CDT, 6 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 512 AM CDT MON MAY 12 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131100- 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- 512 AM CDT MON MAY 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY BE CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING...PARTICULARLY EAST OF A LINE FROM KILLEEN...TO DALLAS...TO BONHAM...WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 5 AM TUESDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT FLOODING CONCERNS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON. 25
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 21 more | 23 hr |
| May 12, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 52 hr |
| May 12, 9:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 46 hr |
| May 12, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 60 min |
| May 12, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam | 36 min |
| May 12, 12:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche | 23 min |
| May 12, 12:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 34 min |
| May 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche, Cooke, Erath, Hood, Parker, Wise | 60 min |
| May 12, 1:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 24 min |
| May 12, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 57 min |
| May 12, 1:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 33 min |
| May 12, 1:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Erath, Hood, Parker | 2 hr |
| May 12, 2:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 27 min |
| May 12, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 46 min |
| May 12, 2:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Parker, Somervell | 2 hr |
| May 12, 2:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 33 min |
| May 12, 2:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke | 36 min |
| May 12, 2:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 35 min |
| May 12, 2:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 32 min |
| May 12, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood | 29 min |
| May 12, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Mills | 52 min |
| May 12, 2:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 12, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 57 min |
| May 12, 3:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Mills | 96 min |
| May 12, 3:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 31 min |
| May 12, 3:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Rockwall | 88 min |
| May 12, 3:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson | 93 min |
| May 12, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 63 min |
| May 12, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin, Hunt, Rockwall | 58 min |
| May 12, 4:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 67 min |
| May 12, 4:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 33 min |
| May 12, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas | 61 min |
| May 12, 4:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Grayson | 117 min |
| May 12, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Mills | 117 min |
| May 12, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hill | 58 min |
| May 12, 4:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque, Hill, Somervell | 3 hr |
| May 12, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 33 min |
| May 12, 5:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 3 hr |
| May 12, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 29 min |
| May 12, 5:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Kaufman | 3 hr |
| May 12, 6:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | McLennan | 2 hr |
| May 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Navarro | 114 min |
| May 12, 6:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Van Zandt | 2 hr |
| May 12, 6:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 114 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.