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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 5, 20225 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2022, 11:33 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It took effect at Apr 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2022, 11:33 AM CDT (16:33 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 5, 2022, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 5, 2022, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Mills County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag warning 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 5, 5:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 5:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 5, 2:25 AM CDT, 9 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 5, 8:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 10:04 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 5, 11:05 AM CDT, 28 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
Apr 4, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	60 min
Apr 4, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	42 min
Apr 4, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	35 min
Apr 4, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	33 min
Apr 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	47 min
Apr 4, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	68 min
Apr 4, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	51 min
Apr 4, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	34 min
Apr 4, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton, Grayson	44 min
Apr 4, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	59 min
Apr 4, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	59 min
Apr 4, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	66 min
Apr 4, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt	39 min
Apr 4, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	40 min
Apr 4, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	60 min
Apr 4, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	4 hr
Apr 4, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Erath, Hood, Parker	48 min
Apr 4, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	54 min
Apr 4, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	44 min
Apr 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Rockwall	50 min
Apr 4, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant	56 min
Apr 4, 10:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	25 min
Apr 4, 11:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	35 min
Apr 4, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	47 min
Apr 4, 11:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Apr 4, 11:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	11 hr
Apr 5, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Hill, Kaufman, Navarro	54 min
Apr 5, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	59 min
Apr 5, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	39 min
Apr 5, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	32 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.