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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 26, 2015Stephens County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 26, 2015, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2015, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Stephens County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 26, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:19 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDFreestone116 min
May 25, 7:25 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDKaufman2 hr
May 25, 7:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMilam, Robertson3 hr
May 25, 7:31 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDFannin119 min
May 25, 7:34 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDFalls3 hr
May 25, 7:51 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCollin22 hr
May 25, 9:29 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDKaufman3 hr
May 25, 9:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Rains, Van Zandt3 hr
May 25, 10:17 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Leon3 hr
May 25, 10:30 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDMilam, Robertson3 hr
May 26, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung55 min
May 26, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDStephens33 min
May 26, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens, Young61 min
May 26, 4:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens, Young3 hr
May 26, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens31 min
May 26, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens63 min
May 26, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens36 min
May 26, 5:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
May 26, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung55 min
May 26, 5:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDYoung119 min
May 26, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto46 min
May 26, 6:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDStephens119 min
May 26, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens53 min
May 26, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto46 min
May 26, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath, Palo Pinto54 min

Nearby

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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.