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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2014, 8:23 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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
- Jun 12, 2014, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Hamilton County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1037 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 Jun 12, 8:09 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:09 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 254 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131215- 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- 254 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE TO MERIDIAN TO HILLSBORO TO PALESTINE. A HAIL THREAT WILL REMAIN TODAY ACROSS THE AREA NORTH OF THAT LINE. THREATS THROUGH MID EVENING INCLUDE VERY LARGE HAIL TO BASEBALL SIZE...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS TO 70 MPH...AND A FEW TORNADOES ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE BOUNDARY. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO EVOLVE INTO A SQUALL LINE MOVING SOUTHEAST BY MID EVENING AND BEYOND WITH A THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS CHANCES SHOULD END BY SUNRISE FRIDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GOLDTHWAITE TO PALESTINE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THROUGH MID EVENING...ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BRECKENRIDGE TO HILLSBORO TO PALESTINE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jun 12, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 22 min |
| Jun 12, 9:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 10:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Robertson | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 10:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 58 min |
| Jun 12, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 11:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Robertson | 22 min |
| Jun 12, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 11:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, McLennan | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:07 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 12:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 12:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 1:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 1:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone, McLennan | 117 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.