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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2014, 2:42 AM CDT for Hill County, Limestone County, McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 13, 2014, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2014, 3:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hill County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 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 12, 11:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 12:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 12:26 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 732 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-131200- 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- 732 PM CDT SUN OCT 12 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT APPROACH TONIGHT...THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AREA WIDE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT DURING THE MID TO LATE EVENING HOURS. THEN A SQUALL LINE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS WILL BE SEVERE PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO OVER 75 MPH AND LARGE HAIL AS WELL AS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SOME TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE FROM GAINESVILLE THROUGH THE DFW METROPLEX EASTWARD OVERNIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY MORNING EAST OF A BOWIE TO COMANCHE LINE. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY ALREADY BE ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 AFTER DAYBREAK. A FEW STORMS MONDAY MORNING MAY BE SEVERE... PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT MONDAY AFTERNOON ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO MERIDIAN TO GOLDTHWAITE. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20-30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL OCCUR. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING BUT IS MORE LIKELY OVERNIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 13, 2:02 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 10:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 23 min |
| Oct 12, 10:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 34 min |
| Oct 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Young | 37 min |
| Oct 12, 10:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 36 min |
| Oct 12, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 57 min |
| Oct 12, 11:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 32 min |
| Oct 12, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 54 min |
| Oct 13, 12:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 54 min |
| Oct 13, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 66 min |
| Oct 13, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 36 min |
| Oct 13, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 55 min |
| Oct 13, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 64 min |
| Oct 13, 1:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Grayson, Tarrant | 58 min |
| Oct 13, 2:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Coryell | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 2:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 2:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 25 min |
| Oct 13, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 67 min |
| Oct 13, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar | 56 min |
| Oct 13, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Coryell | 84 min |
| Oct 13, 3:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque, Comanche, Hamilton, Mills, Somervell | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 3:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 3:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Van Zandt | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Navarro | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 4:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 4:33 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill | 87 min |
| Oct 13, 6:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan | 84 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.