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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 24, 2020Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2020, 3:25 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 24, 2020, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2020, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2020-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1546 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2020-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 23, 6:42 PM CDT, 20 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 6:42 PM CDT, 20 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 10:18 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDStephens, Young57 min
May 23, 11:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens, Young41 min
May 24, 12:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFreestone, Limestone, Navarro34 min
May 24, 12:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRobertson30 min
May 24, 1:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMilam37 min
May 24, 1:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRobertson31 min
May 24, 1:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHenderson36 min
May 24, 1:46 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLeon, Robertson74 min
May 24, 1:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFalls, Limestone, McLennan29 min
May 24, 2:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEllis25 min
May 24, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis40 min
May 24, 2:34 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningFWDDallas8 days
May 24, 2:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson, Tarrant28 min
May 24, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson52 min
May 24, 3:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDEllis116 min
May 24, 3:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt, Rains26 min
May 24, 3:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson32 min
May 24, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton40 min
May 24, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCooke46 min
May 24, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell32 min
May 24, 4:16 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDBell, Coryell2 hr
May 24, 4:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta, Lamar40 min
May 24, 4:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson34 min
May 24, 4:51 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDLamar3 hr
May 24, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDErath37 min
May 24, 5:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDMcLennan24 min
May 24, 5:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDErath29 min
May 24, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan32 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.