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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this winter storm warning at Mar 4, 2015, 3:56 AM CST for 39 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 4, 2015, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 23 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2015, 3:56 AM CST (09:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2015, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2015, 10:35 AM CST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 39 counties
Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 327 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 4, 12:23 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 12:23 AM CST, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 3:43 PM CST, 12 hours 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 343 PM CST TUE MAR 3 2015 TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-041200- 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- 343 PM CST TUE MAR 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...NORTHEAST TEXAS AND SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION OVERNIGHT WITH THE VISIBILITY IN SOME LOCATIONS FALLING BELOW 1 MILE. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM COMANCHE TO DALLAS TO BONHAM WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND SPREAD SOUTHWARD WEDNESDAY NIGHT AS ARCTIC AIR DEEPENS ACROSS THE REGION. SOME LIGHT SNOW IS ALSO POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. ALL PRECIPITATION WILL END BEFORE MIDDAY THURSDAY. IMPACTS TO TRAVEL ARE LIKELY. THEREFORE...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE REGION FROM NOON WEDNESDAY THROUGH NOON THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 8:27 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FWD | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 52 hr |
| Mar 4, 9:17 AM CST | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 52 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:31 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 44 min |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Texas, 2015Every winter storm warning 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.