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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 16, 2019Jack County, Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2019, 12:27 AM CDT for Jack County, Young County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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 16, 2019, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2019, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jack County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 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 15, 11:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 3821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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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 15, 11:36 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:36 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:33 PM CDT, 54 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 15, 7:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	52 hr
Jun 15, 7:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	49 hr
Jun 15, 11:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens, Young	27 min
Jun 15, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	38 min
Jun 16, 12:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	29 min
Jun 16, 5:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Denton	114 min
Jun 16, 7:53 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	15 hr
Jun 16, 10:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	3 hr
Jun 16, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	32 min
Jun 16, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	65 min
Jun 16, 12:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	65 min
Jun 16, 1:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	3 hr
Jun 16, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	36 min
Jun 16, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	30 min
Jun 16, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	61 min
Jun 16, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	39 min
Jun 16, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Tarrant	65 min
Jun 16, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Somervell	65 min
Jun 16, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton	62 min
Jun 16, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas	29 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	3 hr
Jun 16, 4:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Ellis	28 min
Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	45 min
Jun 16, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	49 min
Jun 16, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	67 min
Jun 16, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	24 min
Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	59 min
Jun 16, 5:37 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	21 days
Jun 16, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	32 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	37 min
Jun 16, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Robertson	24 min
Jun 16, 6:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Limestone	119 min
Jun 16, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, McLennan	23 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan	2 hr

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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.