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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 1, 2016Leon County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at May 1, 2016, 11:39 PM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 1, 2016, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2016, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Leon County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 1, 7:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 7:19 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 3:16 PM CDT, 8 hours 23 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
316 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2016

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-021245-
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-
316 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
TEXAS TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCES WILL BE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20
WHERE THE HIGHEST MOISTURE LEVELS RESIDE. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED... BUT A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY...WITH THE BEST
CHANCES REMAINING SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 20 CORRIDOR. A FEW
STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS TUESDAY NIGHT NORTH OF I-20
AND WEST OF I-35.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 11:39 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1139 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2016

TXZ148-162-020545-
ANDERSON TX-LEON TX-
1139 PM CDT SUN MAY 1 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN ANDERSON AND LEON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1245 AM CDT...

AT 1138 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES SOUTH OF CENTERVILLE...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF
MADISONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF OAKWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PALESTINE...BUFFALO...ELKHART...CENTERVILLE...JEWETT...NORMANGEE...OAKWOOD...
MARQUEZ AND LEONA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3151 9574 3146 9575 3146 9571 3132 9566
      3127 9573 3114 9578 3109 9576 3109 9598
      3097 9624 3106 9624 3125 9633 3137 9632
      3162 9579 3166 9579 3182 9541 3176 9540
      3174 9536 3173 9537 3173 9533 3161 9526
TIME...MOT...LOC 0438Z 247DEG 19KT 3112 9594

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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 2, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	43 min
May 2, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	35 min
May 2, 12:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Freestone	24 min
May 2, 12:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	35 min
May 2, 1:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	31 min
May 2, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Limestone, Robertson	46 min
May 2, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	44 min
May 2, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone	42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Texas, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.