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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT for Dallas 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
- Jul 14, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dallas County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 717 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 Jul 14, 6:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 6:12 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 216 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-151145- 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- 216 PM CDT MON JUL 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH THIS EVENING...SPREADING INTO CENTRAL TEXAS OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG TO SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED AS WELL. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL SPREAD SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS THIS EVENING COULD BE STRONG PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED AS WELL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL TEXAS TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT...AND ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE BEST THUNDERSTORM CHANCES ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SOME LOCATIONS IN NORTH TEXAS MAY RECEIVE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL THROUGH FRIDAY...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING PROBLEMS MAY OCCUR. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED BUT A FEW SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOONS. HOWEVER...ANY STORMS THIS WEEK MAY BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM SULPHUR SPRINGS TO WACO TO KILLEEN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 3:09 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:26 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 29 min |
| Jul 15, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 6:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Mills | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 6:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Mills | 115 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.