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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 14, 2019Freestone County, Limestone County, Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2019, 1:48 AM CDT for Freestone County, Limestone County, Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
Mar 14, 2019, 1:48 AM CDT (06:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2019, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Freestone County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Navarro County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KBAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 262 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2019-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2019-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-323 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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 Mar 13, 6:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 6:55 PM CDT, 6 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 12:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis, Kaufman31 min
Mar 14, 12:59 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro31 min
Mar 14, 1:19 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDVan Zandt41 min
Mar 14, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro62 min
Mar 14, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt28 min
Mar 14, 1:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFreestone40 min
Mar 14, 2:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson65 min
Mar 14, 2:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDLeon, Robertson67 min
Mar 14, 3:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDBurleson25 min
Mar 14, 9:34 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro70 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.