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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 13, 20226 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2022, 11:45 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 60 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: Apr 13, 2022, 11:45 AM CDT (16:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Collin County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 679 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 649 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 Apr 13, 6:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 6:11 AM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 3:51 AM CDT, 7 hours 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:21 AM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:34 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 8:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 13, 8:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 9:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 13, 11:34 AM CDT, 11 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 12, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt	64 min
Apr 12, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson	76 min
Apr 12, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls	38 min
Apr 12, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell	62 min
Apr 12, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson	57 min
Apr 12, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone	56 min
Apr 12, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam	40 min
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	45 min
Apr 12, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	40 min
Apr 12, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Falls, Limestone, Milam, Robertson	64 min
Apr 12, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	38 min
Apr 12, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	64 min
Apr 13, 3:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	30 min
Apr 13, 6:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin	33 min
Apr 13, 6:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	24 min
Apr 13, 7:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt	67 min
Apr 13, 7:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	48 min
Apr 13, 8:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	43 min
Apr 13, 8:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Lamar	62 min
Apr 13, 8:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	40 min
Apr 13, 9:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	55 min
Apr 13, 11:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	56 min
Apr 13, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Kaufman, Van Zandt	64 min
Apr 13, 12:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	54 min
Apr 13, 12:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Navarro	67 min
Apr 13, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro, Van Zandt	73 min
Apr 13, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	51 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.