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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2021, 3:04 PM CDT for Comanche County, Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2021, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2021, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Comanche County, TX, Erath County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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 31, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
877
WUUS54 KFWD 312004
SVRFWD
TXC093-143-312030-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0196.210531T2004Z-210531T2030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
304 PM CDT Mon May 31 2021
The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Erath County in north central Texas...
Comanche County in central Texas...
* Until 330 PM CDT.
* At 303 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
extending from De Leon to near Blanket, moving east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Comanche, Dublin, De Leon and Gustine.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
&&
LAT...LON 3219 9851 3213 9809 3169 9845 3170 9848
3172 9850 3172 9854 3178 9872 3191 9881
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 292DEG 19KT 3211 9851 3188 9877
HAIL...0.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
12The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | FWD | Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Eastland and 16 more | 28 hr |
| May 31, 8:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 48 hr |
| May 31, 8:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Denton | 39 hr |
| May 31, 8:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 16 days |
| May 31, 8:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 31, 8:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt | 64 hr |
| May 31, 8:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 53 hr |
| May 31, 9:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 3 hr |
| May 31, 1:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Stephens | 6 hr |
| May 31, 1:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 9 hr |
| May 31, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 39 min |
| May 31, 2:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Eastland | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Palo Pinto | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 60 min |
| May 31, 3:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Somervell | 62 min |
| May 31, 4:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 3 hr |
| May 31, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, Hood, Johnson, Somervell | 65 min |
| May 31, 4:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 6 hr |
| May 31, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 6 hr |
| May 31, 5:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 38 hr |
| May 31, 5:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell | 15 hr |
| May 31, 5:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 39 min |
| May 31, 5:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Somervell, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 31, 5:54 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 35 hr |
| May 31, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Navarro | 59 min |
| May 31, 6:04 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Grayson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 6:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 31, 6:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 3 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.