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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 18, 2021Leon County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at May 18, 2021, 7:22 PM CDT for Leon County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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 18, 2021, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2021, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Leon County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 May 18, 3:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 2:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 2:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
206 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

TXZ095-106-107-181930-
Hopkins TX-Lamar TX-Delta TX-
206 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HOPKINS...SOUTHEASTERN
LAMAR AND CENTRAL DELTA COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM CDT...

At 206 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Cooper Lake Park South Sulphur to near Pleasant
Grove. Movement was east at 30 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.

 Locations impacted include...
Sulphur Springs, Cooper, Como, Deport, Cooper Lake Park South
Sulphur, Cooper Lake Park Doctors Creek and Tira.

LAT...LON 3296 9547 3337 9570 3363 9532 3361 9531
      3296 9531
TIME...MOT...LOC 1906Z 271DEG 28KT 3330 9562 3298 9543

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Special weather statement, May 18, 2:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
237 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

TXZ095-106-107-182000-
Hopkins TX-Lamar TX-Delta TX-
237 PM CDT Tue May 18 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN HOPKINS...EASTERN LAMAR
AND NORTHEASTERN DELTA COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

At 237 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 6 miles northeast of Paris to near Scroggins.
Movement was east at 30 mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with
these storms.

 Locations impacted include...
Paris, Blossom, Deport and Sun Valley.

LAT...LON 3297 9539 3380 9554 3386 9531 3298 9531
TIME...MOT...LOC 1937Z 263DEG 24KT 3374 9547 3295 9522

JLDunn

Special weather statement, May 18, 2:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 7:22 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

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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
May 19, 1:18 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Leon	4 hr
May 19, 1:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	21 days
May 19, 2:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	24 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.