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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 8, 2016Cooke County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2016, 6:03 PM CDT for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 8, 2016, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2016, 6:36 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cooke County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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 12:00Z on 2016-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1353 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2016-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1353 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 4:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack44 min
Aug 8, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDYoung25 min
Aug 8, 4:50 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDJack115 min
Aug 8, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack30 min
Aug 8, 5:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague26 min
Aug 8, 5:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke40 min
Aug 8, 6:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMontague37 min
Aug 8, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson37 min
Aug 8, 6:51 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson24 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.