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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2016, 6:04 PM CDT for Fannin County, Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
- May 9, 2016, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 65.0 mph
Counties Fannin County, TX, Lamar County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 May 9, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 3:04 PM CDT, 3 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 304 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 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- 304 PM CDT MON MAY 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THROUGH LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR AREAS MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 35. AREAS FROM GAINESVILLE TO BONHAM TO PARIS AND SOUTH TO SULPHUR SPRINGS HAVE THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH LATE EVENING. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE. FARTHER SOUTH...ISOLATED STORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH LATE EVENING WITH MAINLY A LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE GENERALLY NOT EXPECTED WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 AFTER 5 PM THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE DURING THIS TIME. BETTER STORM CHANCES ARE EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING THIS TIME INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF NORTH TEXAS LATE FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THROUGH LATE EVENING GENERALLY EAST OF INTERSTATE 35 AND ALONG THE RED RIVER. DUNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 67 min |
| May 8, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Parker, Wise | 63 min |
| May 9, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 29 min |
| May 9, 12:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 26 min |
| May 9, 3:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 24 min |
| May 9, 4:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 58 min |
| May 9, 4:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Young | 3 hr |
| May 9, 4:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Montague | 48 min |
| May 9, 5:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Montague | 52 min |
| May 9, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 54 min |
| May 9, 7:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 37 min |
| May 9, 7:52 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Jack | 3 hr |
| May 9, 8:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 5 days |
| May 9, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fannin, Lamar | 29 min |
| May 9, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 54 min |
| May 9, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.