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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 12, 2023Comanche County, Hamilton County, Mills County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2023, 8:35 PM CDT for Comanche County, Hamilton County, Mills County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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: Jun 12, 2023, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2023, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Comanche County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Mills County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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
Jun 12, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 349 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: 4070 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -6.3

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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 Jun 12, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:20 PM CDT, 15 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
Jun 12, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Comanche	46 min
Jun 12, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	40 min
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	16 min
Jun 12, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	65 min
Jun 12, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	63 min
Jun 12, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Johnson	65 min
Jun 12, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	45 min
Jun 12, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Ellis	62 min
Jun 12, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Kaufman	38 min
Jun 13, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Young	32 min
Jun 13, 3:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	53 min
Jun 13, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	46 min
Jun 13, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	65 min
Jun 13, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	65 min
Jun 13, 5:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	64 min
Jun 13, 5:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	59 min
Jun 13, 6:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	54 min
Jun 13, 6:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	36 min
Jun 13, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	57 min
Jun 13, 7:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas	33 min
Jun 13, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	58 min
Jun 13, 7:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	28 min
Jun 13, 8:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	34 min
Jun 13, 8:31 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	3 hr
Jun 13, 9:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	26 min
Jun 13, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Delta	35 min
Jun 13, 11:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hopkins	29 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	47 min
Jun 13, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	60 min
Jun 13, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	43 min
Jun 13, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	55 min
Jun 13, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt, Rockwall	46 min
Jun 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman	31 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	74 min
Jun 13, 3:05 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 25 more	5 days
Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Van Zandt	52 min
Jun 13, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Delta, Lamar	44 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	40 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	18 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	3 hr
Jun 13, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	36 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.