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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 19, 2016Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2016, 9:53 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
Apr 19, 2016, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2016-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Apr 19, 6:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 6:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHunt51 hr
Apr 19, 8:02 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHunt, Rockwall48 hr
Apr 19, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Montague, Wise50 min
Apr 19, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Montague, Wise46 min
Apr 19, 11:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung37 min
Apr 19, 11:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton67 min
Apr 19, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke49 min
Apr 19, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto32 min
Apr 19, 11:59 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCooke, Montague3 hr
Apr 20, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Stephens42 min
Apr 20, 12:16 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens3 hr
Apr 20, 12:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson40 min
Apr 20, 12:33 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDPalo Pinto, Parker57 min
Apr 20, 12:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens4 hr
Apr 20, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker61 min
Apr 20, 12:52 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Parker23 min
Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Denton, Grayson, Wise3 hr
Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDCollin, Denton, Grayson, Wise3 hr
Apr 20, 1:43 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant47 min
Apr 20, 1:48 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDParker, Tarrant3 hr
Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant44 min
Apr 20, 2:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDComanche30 min
Apr 20, 2:17 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDErath, Hood, Johnson, Somervell3 hr
Apr 20, 2:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson63 min
Apr 20, 2:30 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill60 min
Apr 20, 2:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant54 min
Apr 20, 2:57 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDDallas, Ellis3 hr
Apr 20, 3:20 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman, Navarro55 min
Apr 20, 4:05 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDHenderson, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, Rains, Rockwall and 1 more3 hr
Apr 20, 4:20 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Hill, Lampasas, McLennan and 1 more3 hr
Apr 20, 4:24 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens3 hr
Apr 20, 4:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDVan Zandt63 min
Apr 20, 4:46 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson59 min
Apr 20, 4:52 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas24 hr
Apr 20, 5:26 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell, Falls, Limestone3 hr
Apr 20, 6:11 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins38 hr
Apr 20, 6:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDenton52 hr
Apr 20, 6:31 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCollin27 hr
Apr 20, 7:12 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto29 hr
Apr 20, 7:12 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDParker60 hr
Apr 20, 7:19 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDCollin40 hr
Apr 20, 9:10 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDComanche4 days
Apr 20, 9:37 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDStephens22 hr

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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.