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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 5, 2023Comanche County, Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2023, 5:24 PM CDT for Comanche County, Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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 5, 2023, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2023, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 65.0 mph

Counties Comanche County, TX, Mills County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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
May 5, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 381 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 3:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 4:42 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 4:43 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 4:44 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 4:46 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 4:48 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 5, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 minute 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 4, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	66 min
May 4, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	41 min
May 4, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	39 min
May 4, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	38 min
May 4, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	64 min
May 4, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	46 min
May 4, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	47 min
May 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	45 min
May 4, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	56 min
May 4, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, McLennan	47 min
May 4, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise	62 min
May 4, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	46 min
May 4, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	44 min
May 4, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	47 min
May 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas	52 min
May 4, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, McLennan	65 min
May 4, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Denton	57 min
May 4, 9:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Grayson	100 min
May 4, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	55 min
May 4, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	35 min
May 4, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, McLennan	34 min
May 4, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Henderson, Navarro	58 min
May 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	28 min
May 4, 10:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
May 4, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Henderson	59 min
May 5, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	45 min
May 5, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	66 min
May 5, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	44 min
May 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	54 min
May 5, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	53 min
May 5, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke	34 min
May 5, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	77 min
May 5, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	72 min
May 5, 6:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	3 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.