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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 20205 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2020, 3:13 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 62 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: May 8, 2020, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2020, 4:15 AM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 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
May 8, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -438 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 775 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 May 8, 1:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 7, 10:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1041 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1040 PM     HAIL             BENBROOK                32.68N 97.46W
05/07/2020  E1.00 INCH       TARRANT            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN BENBROOK.

&&

JWG

Local storm report, May 7, 10:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1046 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1030 PM     HAIL             ANNETTA SOUTH           32.67N 97.65W
05/07/2020  E1.25 INCH       PARKER             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            1.25 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN ANNETTA SOUTH.

&&

JWG

Local storm report, May 7, 10:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1047 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1045 PM     HAIL             1 SW BENBROOK           32.66N 97.48W
05/07/2020  E1.00 INCH       TARRANT            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED ON NORTHWEST SIDE
            OF BENBROOK LAKE.

&&

JWG

Local storm report, May 7, 10:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1057 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1055 PM     HAIL             4 WNW CROWLEY           32.61N 97.41W
05/07/2020  E1.25 INCH       TARRANT            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT MCPHERSON
            BLVD AND CHISHOLM TRAIL PKWY.

&&

JWG

Local storm report, May 7, 10:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1059 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1030 PM     HAIL             4 NE ALEDO              32.73N 97.56W
05/07/2020  E1.00 INCH       PARKER             TX   NWS EMPLOYEE

            1-INCH HAIL REPORTED NEAR ALEDO.

&&

JWG

Local storm report, May 7, 11:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1106 PM CDT THU MAY 7 2020

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1103 PM     HAIL             2 E CROWLEY             32.58N 97.33W
05/07/2020  E1.00 INCH       TARRANT            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

            QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT HIGHWAY 1187
            AND HEMPHILL ST.

&&

JWG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	60 min
May 7, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	62 min
May 7, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	42 min
May 7, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant	43 min
May 7, 11:19 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	21 hr
May 8, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson, Montague	59 min
May 8, 4:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 3 more	67 min
May 8, 5:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	25 min
May 8, 5:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall	48 min
May 8, 6:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant	47 min
May 8, 7:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	58 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.