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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

August 5, 2017Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2017, 7:19 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 5, 2017, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2017, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 Aug 5, 7:16 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:16 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 3:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 7:19 PM CDT, 0 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
Aug 6, 7:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	40 min
Aug 6, 8:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	41 min
Aug 6, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	45 min
Aug 6, 9:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Lamar	2 hr
Aug 6, 10:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Lamar	44 min
Aug 6, 10:22 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Fannin	3 hr
Aug 6, 10:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	43 min
Aug 6, 11:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	52 min
Aug 6, 1:27 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Lamar	63 min
Aug 6, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	46 min
Aug 6, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	19 hr
Aug 6, 3:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	33 min
Aug 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	62 min
Aug 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	60 min
Aug 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	3 hr
Aug 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	62 min
Aug 6, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	52 min
Aug 6, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	46 min
Aug 6, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant, Wise	68 min
Aug 6, 6:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	47 min
Aug 6, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	52 min
Aug 6, 6:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	48 min
Aug 6, 6:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Parker	3 hr
Aug 6, 6:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	35 min

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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.