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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 23, 20147 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2014, 5:28 AM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 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 23, 2014, 5:28 AM CDT (10:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2014, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Jack County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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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 Jun 23, 4:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 4:14 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 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
Jun 23, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Jack, Montague, Wise, Young	58 min
Jun 23, 5:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens, Young	35 min
Jun 23, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Parker, Tarrant	54 min
Jun 23, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hood, Johnson and 3 more	61 min
Jun 23, 6:47 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	3 hr
Jun 23, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Erath	27 min
Jun 23, 7:03 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	3 hr
Jun 23, 7:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Hill	32 min
Jun 23, 7:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	27 min
Jun 23, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman	33 min
Jun 23, 7:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton, Hill, Mills	32 min
Jun 23, 8:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	24 min
Jun 23, 8:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	62 min
Jun 23, 8:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls, Limestone	65 min
Jun 23, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	27 min
Jun 23, 9:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	53 min

Nearby

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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.