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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 9, 2016Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 8:51 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 9, 2016, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Bosque County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -337 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 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 Jul 9, 6:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 6:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
320 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-101145-
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-
320 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT NORTH OF A
COMANCHE TO PALESTINE LINE. A FEW STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE
STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PRIMARY HAZARD BEING DAMAGING
DOWNBURST WINDS. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAINFALL MAY LEAD TO
LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ON SUNDAY NORTHEAST OF A
LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO CANTON. GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE STORMS.

OTHERWISE...HOT CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 90S AND AFTERNOON
HEAT INDEX VALUES BETWEEN 100 TO 104.

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

STALLEY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
446 PM CDT SAT JUL 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0433 PM     TSTM WND GST     DALLAS                  32.77N  96.78W
07/09/2016  E60 MPH          DALLAS             TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            60 MPH WIND GUST REPORTED AT DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY AND NW
            HWY.

Local storm report, Jul 9, 4:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
455 PM CDT SAT JUL 09 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0450 PM     TSTM WND GST     BOWIE                   33.57N  97.85W
07/09/2016  E60 MPH          MONTAGUE           TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            BOWIE VFD REPORTS ESTIMATED WIND OF 60 MPH

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
513 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

TXZ121-131>134-144-145-092245-
JOHNSON TX-HOOD TX-HILL TX-BOSQUE TX-KAUFMAN TX-ELLIS TX-
SOMERVELL TX-
513 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR ELLIS...HOOD...SOMERVELL...
JOHNSON...NORTH CENTRAL BOSQUE...NORTHERN HILL AND KAUFMAN COUNTIES
UNTIL 545 PM CDT...

AT 511 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG WINDS
ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVER TARRANT AND DALLAS
COUNTIES...MOVING SOUTHWARD AT 35 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRAND PRAIRIE...MANSFIELD...CEDAR HILL...BURLESON...LANCASTER...
WAXAHACHIE...CLEBURNE...ENNIS...MIDLOTHIAN...TERRELL...SEAGOVILLE...FORNEY...
CROWLEY...GLENN HEIGHTS...RED OAK...GRANBURY...KAUFMAN...KEENE...JOSHUA AND
ALVARADO.

LAT...LON 3236 9645 3235 9645 3233 9638 3205 9694
      3210 9697 3208 9734 3220 9793 3254 9807
      3256 9801 3255 9652 3281 9652 3282 9630
      3284 9629 3284 9608 3236 9608
TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 217DEG 18KT 3258 9791 3217 9728

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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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
Jul 9, 7:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	41 min
Jul 9, 8:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	45 min
Jul 9, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	44 min
Jul 9, 8:38 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hamilton	3 hr
Jul 9, 9:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hill, McLennan	2 hr
Jul 9, 10:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	3 hr
Jul 9, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	48 min
Jul 10, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	22 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.