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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

January 25, 2021Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jan 25, 2021, 4:05 AM CST for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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: Jan 25, 2021, 4:05 AM CST (10:05 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2021, 4:30 AM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Erath County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 164 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 440 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 25, 2:05 AM CST, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 2:05 AM CST, 2 hours before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 25, 1:51 AM CST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 25, 3:44 AM CST, 21 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
344 AM CST Mon Jan 25 2021

TXZ129-141-251015-
Comanche TX-Eastland TX-
344 AM CST Mon Jan 25 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN EASTLAND AND NORTHWESTERN
COMANCHE COUNTIES UNTIL 415 AM CST...

At 344 AM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles northeast of Rising Star, or 15 miles south of Eastland,
moving northeast at 55 mph.

Nickel size hail will be possible with this storm.

 Locations impacted include...
Gorman and Carbon.

LAT...LON 3251 9847 3230 9847 3226 9855 3225 9854
      3206 9889 3225 9892
TIME...MOT...LOC 0944Z 240DEG 49KT 3219 9884

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Special weather statement, Jan 25, 4:05 AM CST, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
405 AM CST Mon Jan 25 2021

TXZ116-130-251030-
Palo Pinto TX-Erath TX-
405 AM CST Mon Jan 25 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN ERATH AND
SOUTHEASTERN PALO PINTO COUNTIES UNTIL 430 AM CST...

At 404 AM CST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
between Eastland and Stephenville, moving northeast at 55 mph.

Nickel size hail will be possible with this storm.

 Locations impacted include...
Gordon, Huckabay, Morgan Mill and Mingus.

LAT...LON 3251 9847 3273 9806 3251 9807 3245 9804
      3225 9848
TIME...MOT...LOC 1004Z 238DEG 49KT 3235 9851

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 25, 3:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	39 min
Jan 25, 3:44 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	31 min
Jan 25, 4:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	35 min
Jan 25, 5:58 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hill	32 min
Jan 25, 6:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman, Rockwall	39 min
Jan 25, 6:20 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Navarro	40 min
Jan 25, 6:23 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lamar	37 min
Jan 25, 6:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains	60 min
Jan 25, 6:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	53 min
Jan 25, 7:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	35 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.