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Special Weather Statement, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 27, 2021Hood County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this special weather statement at Jul 27, 2021, 7:21 PM CDT for Hood County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Jul 27, 2021, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2021, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

County Hood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 398 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: 1566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

411 
WWUS84 KFWD 280021
SPSFWD

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
721 PM CDT Tue Jul 27 2021
 
TXZ116-117-131-280045-
Hood TX-Palo Pinto TX-Parker TX-
721 PM CDT Tue Jul 27 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN PARKER...
SOUTHEASTERN PALO PINTO AND NORTHWESTERN HOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM
CDT...

At 721 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles southwest of Weatherford, moving southwest at 15 mph.

Wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with this storm.
  
Locations impacted include...
Lipan.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Seek
a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle.

This storm may intensify, so closely monitor for additional
information or possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3274 9790 3266 9778 3243 9793 3249 9806
      3251 9807 3251 9809 3260 9818
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 049DEG 14KT 3265 9790 

$$

Godwin

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 7:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	30 min
Jul 27, 7:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	29 min
Jul 27, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	39 min
Jul 28, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	37 min
Jul 28, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	38 min
Jul 28, 2:44 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 11 more	28 hr
Jul 28, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Smith	40 min
Jul 28, 3:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Wise	42 min
Jul 28, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Van Zandt	34 min
Jul 28, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	37 min
Jul 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	43 min
Jul 28, 4:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Henderson	24 min
Jul 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	34 min
Jul 28, 5:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	28 min
Jul 28, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Tarrant	31 min
Jul 28, 6:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	72 min
Jul 28, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant	23 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.