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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 12, 201946 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 12, 2019, 3:09 PM CDT for 46 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 12, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 2019, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 12, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

All 46 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 315 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 253 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 12, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 12:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 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
Mar 11, 9:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague	41 min
Mar 12, 3:41 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland, Erath and 8 more	8 hr
Mar 12, 1:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	55 hr
Mar 12, 1:49 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	56 hr
Mar 12, 2:19 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	56 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.