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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2014, 3:38 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 16, 2014, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -213 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 16, 3:29 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:29 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 3:23 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 323 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-171145- 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- 323 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF NORTH TEXAS THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH THE BEST CHANCES ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR. FREQUENT LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS OVER 70 MPH. IN ADDITION...STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS WILL POSE A THREAT TO THOSE INVOLVED IN OUTDOOR RECREATION ACTIVITIES...ESPECIALLY ON AREA LAKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LOW THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE DOWNBURST WINDS...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL REMAIN THE PRIMARY HAZARDS...ESPECIALLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING PERIODS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH THIS EVENING NORTHWEST OF A LAMPASAS TO ATHENS LINE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 4:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 60 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.