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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 8, 2014Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2014, 4:19 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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: Aug 8, 2014, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2014, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cooke County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 1186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -236 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 Aug 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:16 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
218 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

TXZ101-081945-
JACK TX-
218 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN JACK COUNTY

AT 217 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JACKSBORO...MOVING NORTH AT
5 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3300 9792 3300 9799 3301 9809 3322 9812
      3323 9792
TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 178DEG 6KT 3307 9798

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
242 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

TXZ101-102-116-082015-
JACK TX-PALO PINTO TX-WISE TX-
242 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  JACK COUNTY
  PALO PINTO COUNTY
  WISE COUNTY

AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF
BRIDGEPORT TO 16 MILES WEST OF MINERAL WELLS...MOVING NORTH AT 5
MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3295 9857 3295 9843 3347 9842 3347 9798
      3343 9797 3343 9738 3299 9741 3301 9805
      3252 9807 3251 9857 3252 9858
TIME...MOT...LOC 1941Z 203DEG 6KT 3318 9788 3281 9835

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
315 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

TXZ101-102-082045-
JACK TX-WISE TX-
315 PM CDT FRI AUG 8 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  JACK COUNTY
  WISE COUNTY

AT 315 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF
BRIDGEPORT TO 3 MILES WEST OF JACKSBORO TO 10 MILES EAST OF GRAHAM...
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...PEA-SIZED
HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT.

LAT...LON 3347 9798 3343 9797 3343 9738 3299 9740
      3301 9842 3347 9842
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 157DEG 8KT 3324 9773 3323 9821
          3306 9843

Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:42 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:51 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:12 PM CDT, 7 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
Aug 8, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	27 min
Aug 8, 2:42 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Coryell and 30 more	52 hr
Aug 8, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Wise	33 min
Aug 8, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Wise	30 min
Aug 8, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	33 min
Aug 8, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	24 min
Aug 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	33 min
Aug 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Wise	2 hr
Aug 8, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	64 min
Aug 8, 5:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	32 min
Aug 8, 6:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	27 min
Aug 8, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	27 min
Aug 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	62 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.