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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 325, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2015, 5:10 PM CDT for Bell County, Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 18, 2015, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bell County, TX, Coryell County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 Jun 18, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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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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| Jun 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Navarro | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Falls, Freestone, Limestone | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Limestone | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 9:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 9 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 2:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bosque | 118 min |
| Jun 18, 4:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 4:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Bell | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 5:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 113 min |
| Jun 18, 6:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hamilton | 52 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.