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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2020, 1:28 AM CDT for Cooke County, Grayson County, Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 77 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
- Jun 22, 2020, 1:28 AM CDT (06:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2020, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 77 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 22, 12:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 12:15 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Wise | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 3:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 3:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Lamar | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 4:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Rockwall, Tarrant | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 5:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 57 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.