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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this heat advisory at Jun 16, 2017, 3:26 AM CDT for 39 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jun 16, 2017, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2017, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 16, 2017, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2017, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
All 39 counties
Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 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 nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 322 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2783 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 12:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Comanche, Erath, Hamilton, Mills | 23 min |
Nearby
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.