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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2018Montague County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2018, 8:56 AM CDT for Montague County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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: May 3, 2018, 8:56 AM CDT (13:56 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2018, 9:49 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 65.0 mph

Counties Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 3, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 3, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 236 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 7:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 7:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 3:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 3, 3:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 4:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 7:02 AM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 7:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 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
May 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	77 min
May 2, 9:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Young	3 hr
May 2, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	55 min
May 2, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	44 min
May 3, 2:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	26 min
May 3, 3:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	47 min
May 3, 3:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	48 min
May 3, 4:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	33 min
May 3, 7:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	43 min
May 3, 7:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	14 min
May 3, 7:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	44 min
May 3, 7:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens	42 min
May 3, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Young	62 min
May 3, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker	63 min
May 3, 8:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	58 min
May 3, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	34 min
May 3, 9:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Wise	51 min
May 3, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant	31 min
May 3, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	43 min
May 3, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Denton, Grayson	65 min
May 3, 10:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant	43 min
May 3, 10:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	43 min
May 3, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	29 min
May 3, 10:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hamilton	49 min
May 3, 11:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt	45 min
May 3, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall	57 min
May 3, 11:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas	3 hr
May 3, 12:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque	3 hr
May 3, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	49 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.