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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 13, 2014Lampasas County, Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2014, 6:53 PM CDT for Lampasas County, Mills 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: Apr 13, 2014, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Apr 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 439 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 13, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 5:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
524 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-141145-
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-
524 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...
MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A BONHAM TO COMANCHE THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER
HAZARDS...HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNSET FOR AREAS ALONG AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO CORSICANA TO HEARNE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
FROST IS POSSIBLE TUESDAY MORNING ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS.

A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS TO NORTH TEXAS THURSDAY
INTO THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF THE
AREA.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:07 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:09 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:24 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:37 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:37 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
637 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0633 PM     HAIL             4 S GOLDTHWAITE         31.51N  98.57W
04/13/2014  E1.75 INCH       MILLS              TX   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            4 MILES SOUTH OF GOLDTHWAITE

Local storm report, Apr 13, 6:38 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
638 PM CDT SUN APR 13 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0635 PM     HAIL             DUBLIN                  32.08N  98.33W
04/13/2014  E1.75 INCH       ERATH              TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            GOLFBALL HAIL COVERING THE GROUND

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 13, 3:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 28 more	16 hr
Apr 13, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	25 min
Apr 13, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	30 min
Apr 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	64 min
Apr 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	63 min
Apr 13, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	52 min
Apr 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath	64 min
Apr 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	29 min
Apr 13, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	80 min
Apr 13, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	63 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.