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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 313, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2015, 5:27 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 28, 2015, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2015, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 28, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1310 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 May 28, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 338 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-291200- 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- 338 PM CDT THU MAY 28 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS TONIGHT AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A FEW TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 ALL OF NEXT WEEK. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY WEST OF THE I-35 CORRIDOR. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 28, 1:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 67 min |
| May 27, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 48 min |
| May 27, 7:20 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 27, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant, Wise | 58 min |
| May 27, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 119 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton | 113 min |
| May 27, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 33 min |
| May 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 35 min |
| May 28, 2:33 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 5 days |
| May 28, 3:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 59 hr |
| May 28, 6:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 3 hr |
| May 28, 7:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 28, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 4 hr |
| May 28, 12:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis | 49 min |
| May 28, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 49 min |
| May 28, 2:07 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 18 hr |
| May 28, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Limestone | 51 min |
| May 28, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 31 min |
| May 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 51 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens, Young | 119 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 44 min |
| May 28, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Hunt | 41 min |
| May 28, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 63 min |
| May 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 114 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.