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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2014, 5:39 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2014, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
County Cooke County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 9, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 325 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101145- 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- 325 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO PALESTINE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE...TO GRANBURY...TO KILLEEN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE...TO GRANBURY...TO KILLEEN. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF AN EASTLAND TO CLEBURNE TO CANTON LINE SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW STORMS COULD BRIEFLY REACH SEVERE LIMITS AND PRODUCE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION ON MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES THEN SHIFT TO AREAS SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 ON TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED NORTH OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE...TO HILLSBORO...TO PALESTINE THROUGH THIS EVENING. 82/JLD
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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:17 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 5:23 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Lamar | 112 min |
| Aug 9, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 29 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.