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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 14, 2014Henderson County, Kaufman County, Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2014, 8:47 AM CDT for Henderson County, Kaufman County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 14, 2014, 8:47 AM CDT (13:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2014, 9:45 AM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Henderson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 2260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 14, 8:42 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 8:42 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 4:11 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 14, 8:41 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 8:43 AM CDT, 4 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
Apr 13, 7:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	24 min
Apr 13, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	26 min
Apr 13, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	55 min
Apr 13, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	66 min
Apr 13, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Montague, Wise	61 min
Apr 13, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	63 min
Apr 13, 9:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	26 min
Apr 13, 9:26 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	24 hr
Apr 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	65 min
Apr 13, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	50 min
Apr 13, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	30 min
Apr 13, 11:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hunt, Lamar	28 min
Apr 13, 11:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hunt	33 min
Apr 14, 12:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	33 min
Apr 14, 3:13 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	FWD	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Delta and 24 more	30 hr
Apr 14, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	34 min
Apr 14, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	32 min
Apr 14, 8:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	61 min
Apr 14, 9:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	33 min
Apr 14, 9:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	58 min
Apr 14, 9:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	47 min
Apr 14, 9:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	23 min
Apr 14, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, McLennan	60 min
Apr 14, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	56 min
Apr 14, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	23 min
Apr 14, 10:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	36 min
Apr 14, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	26 min
Apr 14, 3:19 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Dallas, Ellis, Falls, Freestone and 10 more	18 hr

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.