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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 9, 2019Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2019, 1:16 PM CDT for Dallas County, Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 9, 2019, 1:16 PM CDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2019, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Dallas County, TX, Tarrant County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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
Jun 9, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -473 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 234 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 Jun 9, 1:10 PM CDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 1:10 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 12:17 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 11:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 1:09 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 1:11 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 1:16 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
Jun 9, 11:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Montague	63 min
Jun 9, 11:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	62 min
Jun 9, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	63 min
Jun 9, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	50 min
Jun 9, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Tarrant	66 min
Jun 9, 2:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	3 hr
Jun 9, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	63 min
Jun 9, 2:33 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	15 hr
Jun 9, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	60 min
Jun 9, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	44 min
Jun 9, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	67 min
Jun 9, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Limestone	34 min
Jun 9, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	65 min
Jun 9, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas	62 min
Jun 9, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	27 min
Jun 9, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	23 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.