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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 9, 2015Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2015, 6:21 PM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 9, 2015, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2015, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 9, 6:03 PM CDT, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 6:03 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
244 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101200-
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-
244 PM CDT TUE JUN 9 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...MAINLY
SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM GREENVILLE TO DFW TO BRECKENRIDGE. SOME
STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS
FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
VERY LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH 7 PM.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
427 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0418 PM     TSTM WND GST     DALLAS                  32.77N  96.78W
06/09/2015  M67 MPH          DALLAS             TX   ASOS

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
430 PM CDT TUE JUN 09 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0429 PM     FLASH FLOOD      DALLAS                  32.77N  96.78W
06/09/2015                   DALLAS             TX   BROADCAST MEDIA

            PORTIONS OF LEMON AVE NEAR OAK LAWN ARE IMPASSABLE DUE
            TO WATER OVER THE ROAD

Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:24 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:05 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:21 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
Jun 9, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	25 min
Jun 9, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	48 min
Jun 9, 2:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	30 min
Jun 9, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	29 min
Jun 9, 3:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Van Zandt	3 hr
Jun 9, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	29 min
Jun 9, 3:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Jun 9, 4:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	24 min
Jun 9, 4:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.