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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2015, 10:12 PM CDT for Erath County, Palo Pinto County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 9, 2015, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2015, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Erath County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1015 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 26.9
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 May 9, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 9:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 9:35 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 935 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101200- 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- 935 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY NORTH AND WEST OF A GOLDTHWAITE...TO HILLSBORO...TO DALLAS...TO GAINESVILLE LINE OVERNIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ELSEWHERE. HIGHEST RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 EAST. MAIN HAZARDS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY AND MAY RESULT IN CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING. THESE STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING ACROSS SEVERAL PARTS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY WITH A THREAT FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN FLASH FLOODING. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS MAY OCCUR MONDAY AND TUESDAY BUT THE CHANCES FOR SEVERE STORMS MAY INCREASE WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS MOST LIKELY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 EAST...BUT LOW ELSEWHERE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 6:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
648 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
TXZ129-100030-
EASTLAND TX-
648 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTLAND COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM
CDT...
AT 647 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7
MILES SOUTHWEST OF EASTLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASTLAND...CISCO...RANGER...GORMAN...RISING STAR AND CARBON.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 20 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 324 AND 363.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.
LAT...LON 3241 9911 3251 9894 3251 9847 3230 9848
3208 9892 3208 9911
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 240DEG 49KT 3231 9888
JLDUNNLocal storm report, May 9, 7:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
700 PM CDT SAT MAY 09 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0659 PM TORNADO 12 NW STEPHENVILLE 32.35N 98.35W
05/09/2015 ERATH TX STORM CHASER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO 12 MILES NW OF
STEPHENVILLELocal storm report, May 9, 7:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
706 PM CDT SAT MAY 09 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0706 PM FLASH FLOOD NEWCASTLE 33.20N 98.75W
05/09/2015 YOUNG TX LAW ENFORCEMENT
WATER OVER HWY 380 WEST OF NEWCASTLE.Local storm report, May 9, 9:26 PM CDT, 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 40 min |
| May 9, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto | 63 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 30 min |
| May 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Erath | 115 min |
| May 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Parker, Somervell | 60 min |
| May 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood | 30 min |
| May 9, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 58 min |
| May 9, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 56 min |
| May 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 65 min |
| May 9, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| May 9, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Somervell | 60 min |
| May 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath | 2 hr |
| May 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 59 min |
| May 9, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 60 min |
| May 9, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 37 min |
| May 9, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 61 min |
| May 9, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 48 min |
| May 9, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 63 min |
| May 9, 11:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 47 min |
| May 9, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 61 min |
| May 9, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 63 min |
| May 9, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Hood | 5 hr |
| May 10, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 28 min |
| May 10, 12:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 41 min |
| May 10, 12:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 66 min |
| May 10, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| May 10, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 73 min |
| May 10, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 23 min |
| May 10, 5:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Hood | 4 hr |
| May 10, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker, Somervell | 62 min |
| May 10, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 48 min |
| May 10, 5:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 44 min |
| May 10, 6:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton | 23 min |
| May 10, 6:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 40 min |
| May 10, 6:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 7:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 57 min |
| May 10, 7:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson | 46 min |
| May 10, 7:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Grayson, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| May 10, 7:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 53 min |
| May 10, 7:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 45 min |
| May 10, 7:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 42 min |
| May 10, 8:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 8:39 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 51 min |
| May 10, 8:47 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 16 hr |
| May 10, 8:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 48 min |
| May 10, 9:02 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood | 3 hr |
| May 10, 9:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 2 hr |
| May 10, 9:32 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 56 days |
| May 10, 9:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 44 min |
| May 10, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 27 hr |
| May 10, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 4 days |
| May 10, 10:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 56 days |
| May 10, 10:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 38 min |
| May 10, 10:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 47 min |
| May 10, 10:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 10, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 41 hr |
| May 10, 10:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 44 min |
| May 10, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall | 41 min |
| May 10, 11:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Fannin, Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 10, 11:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta | 41 min |
| May 10, 11:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Wise | 114 min |
| May 10, 12:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 41 min |
| May 10, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton, Wise | 43 min |
| May 10, 12:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 50 min |
| May 10, 12:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 5 hr |
| May 10, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke | 46 min |
| May 10, 1:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| May 10, 1:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Denton | 10 hr |
| May 10, 1:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 41 min |
| May 10, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 45 min |
| May 10, 1:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 63 min |
| May 10, 1:43 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 20 hr |
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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.