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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 25, 2015Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2015, 11:26 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 2015, 11:26 PM CDT (04:26 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2015, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 25, 10:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 10:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 10:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 8:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
812 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

TXZ141-260200-
COMANCHE TX-
812 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHERN ERATH...SOUTHERN
COMANCHE AND NORTHERN MILLS COUNTIES UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

AT 811 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
ZEPHYR...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EARLY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COMANCHE AND GUSTINE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3184 9876 3205 9841 3194 9832 3198 9825
      3187 9818 3171 9848 3172 9850 3172 9854
      3170 9867
TIME...MOT...LOC 0111Z 233DEG 37KT 3167 9876

15-BAIN

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 8:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
829 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

TXZ142-260215-
MILLS TX-
829 PM CDT WED MAR 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR MILLS COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CDT...

AT 828 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
SKEETERVILLE...OR 10 MILES NORTH OF RICHLAND SPRINGS...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GOLDTHWAITE...MULLIN AND THE INTERSECTION OF RANCH ROAD 765 AND RANCH
ROAD 45.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3161 9878 3169 9876 3172 9850 3141 9827
      3124 9856 3127 9863 3132 9859 3132 9864
      3137 9866 3135 9872 3140 9870 3143 9873
      3137 9877 3141 9878 3141 9884 3144 9887
      3143 9892 3146 9894 3144 9896 3147 9900
TIME...MOT...LOC 0128Z 245DEG 22KT 3142 9892

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Local storm report, Mar 25, 9:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 10:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 10:44 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:26 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 7:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	45 min
Mar 25, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	48 min
Mar 25, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Mills	46 min
Mar 25, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	41 min
Mar 25, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	13 min
Mar 25, 10:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	43 min
Mar 25, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Montague	46 min
Mar 25, 11:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Palo Pinto	49 min
Mar 26, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	40 min
Mar 26, 12:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood	41 min
Mar 26, 12:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Johnson, Somervell	38 min
Mar 26, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	46 min
Mar 26, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall	26 min
Mar 26, 1:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	31 min
Mar 26, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	22 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.