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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 21, 2022Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2022, 4:59 PM CDT for Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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: May 21, 2022, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2022, 5:46 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Mills County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 21, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 320 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: 2761 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 May 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 2:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 21, 4:37 PM CDT, 22 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 21, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	46 min
May 21, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	56 min
May 21, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	60 min
May 21, 4:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hamilton	3 hr
May 21, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Johnson	55 min
May 21, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	66 min
May 21, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	62 min
May 21, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	62 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.