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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 2018Bell County, Falls County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2018, 12:59 PM CDT for Bell County, Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 3, 2018, 12:59 PM CDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2018, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Bell County, TX, Falls County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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
Apr 3, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 448 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 477 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 3, 12:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:36 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 11:33 AM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:06 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:24 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:26 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:35 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 12:39 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:53 PM CDT, 6 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
Apr 3, 3:58 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas and 22 more	15 hr
Apr 3, 10:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	27 min
Apr 3, 10:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	65 min
Apr 3, 11:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	42 min
Apr 3, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	29 min
Apr 3, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	45 min
Apr 3, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	48 min
Apr 3, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, McLennan	56 min
Apr 3, 12:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Coryell	3 hr
Apr 3, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	58 min
Apr 3, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls, Limestone	51 min
Apr 3, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	45 min
Apr 3, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	46 min
Apr 3, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	64 min
Apr 3, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Johnson	57 min
Apr 3, 2:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	30 min
Apr 3, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	34 min
Apr 3, 2:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	18 min
Apr 3, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	50 min
Apr 3, 3:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Falls	43 min
Apr 3, 3:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	50 min
Apr 3, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon, Robertson	45 min
Apr 3, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	61 min
Apr 3, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	47 min
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	29 min
Apr 3, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	37 min

Nearby

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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.