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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 24, 2014Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2014, 2:37 PM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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 24, 2014, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2014, 3:12 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 852 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 24, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:35 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 4:14 AM CDT, 10 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:21 PM CDT, 16 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 24, 2:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
Jun 24, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	34 min
Jun 24, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	33 min
Jun 24, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Somervell	30 min
Jun 24, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	29 min
Jun 24, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	54 min
Jun 24, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	32 min
Jun 24, 3:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	117 min
Jun 24, 3:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
Jun 24, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Young	66 min
Jun 24, 3:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	2 hr
Jun 24, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	25 min
Jun 24, 3:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	64 min
Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	31 min
Jun 24, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	59 min
Jun 24, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	57 min
Jun 24, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	56 min
Jun 24, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	29 min
Jun 24, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	33 min
Jun 24, 4:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	58 min
Jun 24, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	26 min
Jun 24, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	54 min
Jun 24, 4:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Palo Pinto	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	28 min
Jun 24, 4:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	116 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	23 min
Jun 24, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	33 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	58 min
Jun 24, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	40 min
Jun 24, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	28 min
Jun 24, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt	26 min
Jun 24, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	36 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	34 min
Jun 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath, Somervell	2 hr
Jun 24, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	32 min
Jun 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	30 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	32 min
Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	25 min
Jun 24, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	34 min
Jun 24, 6:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	112 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	35 min
Jun 24, 6:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis	3 hr

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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.