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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 31, 2016Collin County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2016, 2:33 PM CDT for Collin County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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: May 31, 2016, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Collin County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 1719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

104 
WUUS54 KFWD 311933
SVRFWD
TXC085-312000-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0252.160531T1933Z-160531T2000Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
233 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COLLIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 233 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LOWRY
  CROSSING...OR NEAR MCKINNEY...AND IS NEARLY STATIONARY.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PRINCETON AND LOWRY CROSSING AROUND 300 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE NEW HOPE
AND ST. PAUL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION GET INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3302 9651 3307 9672 3327 9665 3321 9641
TIME...MOT...LOC 1933Z 201DEG 1KT 3315 9658 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

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1 follow-up statement

815 
WWUS54 KFWD 311956
SVSFWD

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
256 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016

TXC085-312006-
/O.EXP.KFWD.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-160531T2000Z/
COLLIN TX-
256 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL COLLIN COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 300 PM CDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER
HEAVY RAIN AND CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS STILL POSSIBLE
WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3302 9651 3307 9672 3327 9665 3321 9641
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 201DEG 1KT 3315 9658 

$$

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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
May 31, 10:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	3 days
May 31, 11:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	60 min
May 31, 12:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	5 hr
May 31, 1:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Erath	5 hr
May 31, 2:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood	117 min
May 31, 2:22 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	64 hr
May 31, 2:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	2 hr
May 31, 2:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	35 hr
May 31, 2:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	4 days
May 31, 2:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	3 hr
May 31, 2:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Young	9 days
May 31, 2:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	44 hr
May 31, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	33 min
May 31, 3:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin	52 min
May 31, 3:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	3 hr
May 31, 4:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche	29 hr
May 31, 4:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	58 min
May 31, 4:22 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Denton	53 min
May 31, 4:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Fannin	86 min
May 31, 4:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	4 hr
May 31, 4:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Stephens	3 hr
May 31, 5:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	2 hr
May 31, 5:02 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	6 hr
May 31, 5:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	22 hr
May 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Denton	3 hr
May 31, 5:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Hood, Somervell	6 hr
May 31, 5:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	3 hr
May 31, 6:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	12 hr
May 31, 6:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	12 hr
May 31, 6:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	28 hr
May 31, 6:24 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	16 hr
May 31, 6:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Stephens	27 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.