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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2015, 6:43 PM CDT for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 16, 2015, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 16, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 521 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 6:19 PM CDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 6:19 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1028 AM CDT THU APR 16 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-171145- 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- 1028 AM CDT THU APR 16 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS. SOME STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE WEST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE TO DALLAS TO PALESTINE. THERE IS ALSO A LOW-END TORNADO THREAT WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...BEFORE TAPERING OFF ON SUNDAY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE...ESPECIALLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN COULD RESULT IN SOME FLOODING ISSUES DURING THE PERIOD. AFTER A STORM-FREE PERIOD SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...LOW THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN MONDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PARTICULARLY WEST OF A LINE FROM BOWIE TO DALLAS TO PALESTINE.
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 16, 12:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 1:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 1:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lampasas | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills | 55 min |
| Apr 16, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 114 min |
| Apr 16, 3:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, Hill, McLennan | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | McLennan | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 4:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 5:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Freestone | 117 min |
| Apr 16, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Henderson | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Van Zandt | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson | 56 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.