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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 435, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 16, 2023Coryell County, Lampasas County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2023, 6:13 PM CDT for Coryell County, Lampasas County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2023, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2023, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Coryell County, TX, Lampasas County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 345 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: 3139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 16, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:46 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT, 5 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 15, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	41 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	56 min
Jun 15, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	47 min
Jun 15, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	44 min
Jun 15, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	61 min
Jun 15, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	42 min
Jun 15, 8:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	3 hr
Jun 15, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	61 min
Jun 15, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson	62 min
Jun 15, 9:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson	47 min
Jun 15, 9:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	2 hr
Jun 15, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	53 min
Jun 15, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt, Rockwall	62 min
Jun 15, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	62 min
Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	46 min
Jun 15, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton	36 min
Jun 15, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Lamar	34 min
Jun 15, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson	62 min
Jun 15, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	64 min
Jun 15, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	54 min
Jun 15, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman and 4 more	63 min
Jun 15, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	39 min
Jun 15, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Hunt	14 min
Jun 15, 11:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	57 min
Jun 15, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Hopkins	21 min
Jun 15, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	47 min
Jun 15, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	41 min
Jun 15, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Henderson, Rains, Van Zandt	52 min
Jun 16, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	37 min
Jun 16, 12:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	39 hr
Jun 16, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	59 min
Jun 16, 12:38 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Henderson and 7 more	67 hr
Jun 16, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	73 min
Jun 16, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt	68 min
Jun 16, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	60 min
Jun 16, 2:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	51 min
Jun 16, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	60 min
Jun 16, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	54 min
Jun 16, 4:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Henderson, Van Zandt	65 min
Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	30 min
Jun 16, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	54 min
Jun 16, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	37 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	65 min
Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	33 min
Jun 16, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	58 min
Jun 16, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone, McLennan	56 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.