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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 23, 2021Cooke County, Montague County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2021, 2:42 PM CDT for Cooke County, Montague County, Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 23, 2021, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2021, 3:21 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Cooke County, TX, Montague County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 23, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

096 
WUUS54 KFWD 231942
SVRFWD
TXC097-337-232045-
/O.NEW.KFWD.SV.W.0087.210423T1942Z-210423T2045Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
242 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021

The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Montague County in north central Texas...
  West central Cooke County in north central Texas...

* Until 345 PM CDT.

* At 242 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Stoneburg, or
  near Bowie, moving northeast at 30 mph.

  HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is possible.

* Locations impacted include...
  Bowie, Nocona, St. Jo and Stoneburg. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.

&&

LAT...LON 3395 9759 3392 9760 3390 9758 3390 9755
      3391 9752 3386 9745 3384 9746 3382 9745
      3382 9740 3370 9733 3347 9795 3353 9798
      3375 9798 3398 9763
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 232DEG 26KT 3363 9788 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...<50MPH
$$

Sanchez

1 follow-up statement

603 
WWUS54 KFWD 232021
SVSFWD

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
321 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021

TXC097-337-232031-
/O.CAN.KFWD.SV.W.0087.000000T0000Z-210423T2045Z/
Montague TX-Cooke TX-
321 PM CDT Fri Apr 23 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONTAGUE AND WEST CENTRAL
COOKE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits. Therefore the warning has been cancelled.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 PM CDT for
north central Texas.

LAT...LON 3395 9759 3392 9760 3390 9758 3390 9755
      3391 9752 3386 9745 3384 9746 3382 9745
      3382 9740 3370 9733 3347 9795 3353 9798
      3375 9798 3398 9763
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 232DEG 26KT 3380 9761 

$$

Sanchez

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	30 min
Apr 23, 1:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	32 min
Apr 23, 1:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	28 min
Apr 23, 1:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	31 min
Apr 23, 1:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall	28 min
Apr 23, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	42 min
Apr 23, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	37 min
Apr 23, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	63 min
Apr 23, 2:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	42 hr
Apr 23, 2:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	38 hr
Apr 23, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	63 min
Apr 23, 3:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	29 min
Apr 23, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	47 min
Apr 23, 3:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	14 hr
Apr 23, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, McLennan	23 min
Apr 23, 4:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	35 min
Apr 23, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman	28 min
Apr 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	25 min
Apr 23, 5:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	35 min
Apr 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	57 min
Apr 23, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	57 min
Apr 23, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	35 min
Apr 23, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Johnson	26 min
Apr 23, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	37 min
Apr 23, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Denton	19 min
Apr 23, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bell	33 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.