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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 22, 2022Delta County, Hunt County, Lamar County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2022, 5:04 AM CST for Delta County, Hunt County, Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2022, 5:04 AM CST (11:04 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2022, 5:45 AM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Delta County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 31, 10:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	353 days

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 992 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 22, 4:22 AM CST, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 4:22 AM CST, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 22, 4:05 AM CST, 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 22, 3:42 AM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 3:51 AM CST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 3:55 AM CST, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 3:56 AM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 4:06 AM CST, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 22, 4:10 AM CST, 54 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
Feb 21, 7:26 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack, Wise	34 min
Feb 21, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	55 min
Feb 21, 8:09 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Palo Pinto	51 min
Feb 21, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	60 min
Feb 21, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens	36 min
Feb 21, 8:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	54 min
Feb 21, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	36 min
Feb 21, 9:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton, Tarrant, Wise	44 min
Feb 21, 9:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	13 min
Feb 21, 9:24 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke	36 min
Feb 21, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	57 min
Feb 21, 9:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	37 min
Feb 21, 10:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	44 min
Feb 21, 10:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Wise	35 min
Feb 21, 10:42 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Eastland	33 min
Feb 21, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise	60 min
Feb 22, 12:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	35 min
Feb 22, 12:34 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	26 min
Feb 22, 2:17 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	28 min
Feb 22, 3:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	27 min
Feb 22, 3:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	36 min
Feb 22, 4:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Hunt	45 min
Feb 22, 4:05 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	60 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.