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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 2019Madison County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2019, 11:07 PM CDT for Madison County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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: May 3, 2019, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2019, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Madison County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted.

569 
WWUS84 KFWD 040407
SPSFWD

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
1107 PM CDT Fri May 3 2019
 
TXZ162-175-040445-
Robertson TX-Leon TX-
1107 PM CDT Fri May 3 2019

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL ROBERTSON AND
SOUTHERN LEON COUNTIES UNTIL 1145 PM CDT...

At 1105 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles north of Kurten, or 16 miles north of Bryan, moving northeast
at 35 mph.

Dime size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this
storm.

Locations impacted include...
Marquez...Leona....Wheelock...Easterly...Ridge and Hilltop Lakes.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

This storm may intensify, so closely monitor for additional
information or possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3088 9651 3128 9629 3113 9580 3109 9585
      3109 9598 3107 9602 3107 9605 3100 9617
      3093 9633 3086 9639
TIME...MOT...LOC 0405Z 224DEG 30KT 3090 9630 

$$

Bain

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	38 min
May 3, 7:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell, Coryell	57 min
May 3, 8:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Coryell	112 min
May 3, 8:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls	3 hr
May 3, 8:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 3, 9:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Dallas	2 hr
May 3, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	48 min
May 3, 10:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Palo Pinto	3 hr
May 3, 11:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	2 hr
May 3, 11:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Falls	3 hr
May 3, 11:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath	50 min
May 4, 12:37 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Erath, Palo Pinto	113 min
May 4, 12:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Somervell	2 hr
May 4, 1:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	3 hr
May 4, 2:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Somervell	61 min
May 4, 5:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	24 hr

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.