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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 23, 2016Jack County, Montague County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2016, 6:28 AM CDT for Jack County, Montague County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 23, 2016, 6:28 AM CDT (11:28 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2016, 7:20 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 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 23, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 1646 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 May 23, 4:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 4:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
504 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2016

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-241100-
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-
504 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.
A COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL IMPACT AREAS NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR
THIS MORNING. GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING
WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS.

OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM MORNING STORMS COULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR
ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT LATER IN THE DAY. CLOUDS MAY LINGER THIS
AFTERNOON...BUT THERE WILL STILL BE AMPLE INSTABILITY FOR ANY
THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE ABLE TO FORM. AS A RESULT...SOME OF THESE
STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL THE
PRIMARY HAZARDS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY ALONG THE WEST TEXAS
DRYLINE. THIS ACTIVITY MAY REACH WESTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS
THIS EVENING...AND COULD AFFECT AREAS NORTH OF THE I-20 CORRIDOR
AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. DAMAGING WIND WOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARD
DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.
DESPITE CONSIDERABLE INSTABILITY ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...A
STRONG CAPPING INVERSION SHOULD PREVENT THE DAYTIME INITIATION OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

AS A STORM SYSTEM APPROACHES LATE IN THE WEEK...HELPING TO WEAKEN
THE CAP...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL RETURN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.
THE ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE...AND WITH INCREASING VERTICAL
WIND SHEAR...SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE PERIOD.
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...BUT
TORNADIC STORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES MAY LINGER ON SATURDAY...BUT SUNDAY LOOKS TO
BE RAIN-FREE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

25

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 6:20 AM CDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
620 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2016

TXZ091-101-102-231145-
MONTAGUE TX-WISE TX-JACK TX-
620 AM CDT MON MAY 23 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHERN WISE...SOUTHERN MONTAGUE
AND NORTHEASTERN JACK COUNTIES UNTIL 645 AM CDT...

AT 620 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
NEWPORT...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWIE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOWIE...ALVORD...CHICO...FORESTBURG...SUNSET AND NEWPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. SEEK
A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3366 9749 3325 9748 3330 9821 3347 9814
      3347 9798 3365 9798
TIME...MOT...LOC 1120Z 278DEG 22KT 3346 9795

DUNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	60 min
May 23, 6:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	25 min
May 23, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	61 min
May 23, 7:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	25 min
May 23, 9:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	25 min
May 23, 9:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains	57 min
May 23, 10:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	40 min
May 23, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	28 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.