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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2015, 5:22 PM CDT for Anderson 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2015, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2015, 5:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Anderson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 13, 6:27 PM CDT, 22 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 6:27 PM CDT, 22 hours 55 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 13, 9:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 24 hr |
| May 14, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 36 min |
| May 14, 3:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 46 min |
| May 14, 3:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 52 min |
| May 14, 3:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 50 min |
| May 14, 4:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Leon | 116 min |
| May 14, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 44 min |
| May 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 2 hr |
| May 14, 5:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 39 min |
| May 14, 5:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson | 3 hr |
| May 14, 6:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 28 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.