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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2023, 1:46 PM CDT for Fannin County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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 19, 2023, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2023, 2:07 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Young | 2 hr |
| May 19, 1:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 32 min |
| May 19, 1:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin | 36 min |
| May 19, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton, Grayson | 45 min |
| May 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 21 min |
| May 19, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 24 min |
| May 19, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 33 min |
| May 19, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 47 min |
| May 19, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 27 min |
| May 19, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 45 min |
| May 19, 3:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Collin, Denton | 2 hr |
| May 19, 3:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 28 min |
| May 19, 3:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Johnson | 24 min |
| May 19, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hunt | 26 min |
| May 19, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 34 min |
| May 19, 5:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| May 19, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 29 min |
| May 19, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 41 min |
| May 19, 6:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Hill | 2 hr |
| May 19, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton | 43 min |
| May 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 39 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.