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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 2, 2014McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 2014, 6:14 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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: Oct 2, 2014, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 2, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.8

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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 Oct 2, 6:07 PM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 6:07 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 2, 2:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
204 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-031230-
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-
204 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF INTERSTATE 35
WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THEY SWEEP EAST ACROSS NORTH TEXAS.
THE HIGHEST COVERAGE IS EXPECTED ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE
35/35W LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR
SEVERE STORMS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS EAST OF A LINE FROM
MONTAGUE TO EASTLAND. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE
MAIN THREATS BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS
OF NORTH TEXAS SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER
IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS THE REGION.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:33 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:34 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:42 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:44 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:48 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 2, 5:50 PM CDT, 24 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
Oct 1, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	34 min
Oct 2, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	55 min
Oct 2, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	55 min
Oct 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	63 min
Oct 2, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	35 min
Oct 2, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	62 min
Oct 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	57 min
Oct 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	67 min
Oct 2, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	20 min
Oct 2, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	66 min
Oct 2, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	61 min
Oct 2, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	61 min
Oct 2, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	54 min
Oct 2, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	52 min
Oct 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	18 min
Oct 2, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	52 min
Oct 2, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	51 min
Oct 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Lamar	62 min
Oct 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	58 min
Oct 2, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt	52 min
Oct 2, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	63 min
Oct 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.