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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2020, 10:46 PM CDT for Jack County, Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Mar 17, 2020, 10:46 PM CDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2020, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Jack County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
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 Mar 17, 8:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 8:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Young | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 37 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:26 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 21 days |
| Mar 17, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 11:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Palo Pinto | 5 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 12:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 1:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Stephens | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 1:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 2:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 2:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 2:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood, Parker | 44 min |
| Mar 18, 2:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Jack, Wise | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:03 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:11 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Denton | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:01 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:13 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 9 days |
| Mar 18, 4:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 38 min |
| Mar 18, 4:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:04 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 32 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 64 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:07 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Collin | 39 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hunt | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 6:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 6:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:21 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Grayson | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains, Van Zandt | 117 min |
| Mar 18, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Wise | 49 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:15 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 39 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 97 min |
| Mar 18, 9:56 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 4 days |
| Mar 18, 10:06 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 4 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 62 min |
| Mar 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 18 min |
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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.