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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2018, 1:07 AM CDT for Stephens County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 24, 2018, 1:07 AM CDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2018, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
County Stephens County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2014 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
488 WWUS84 KFWD 240607 SPSFWD Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 107 AM CDT SUN JUN 24 2018 TXZ115-240630- Stephens TX- 107 AM CDT SUN JUN 24 2018 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR STEPHENS COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM CDT... At 106 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong winds across the county from a heat burst. Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible. Locations impacted include... Breckenridge, Necessity, Gunsight and Crystal Falls. LAT...LON 3296 9909 3295 9858 3252 9858 3252 9910 TIME...MOT...LOC 0606Z 089DEG 19KT 3273 9890 $$ JLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 79 min |
| Jun 23, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 1:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 1:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 2:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Hood, Jack and 6 more | 73 min |
| Jun 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 38 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.