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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 2, 202346 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 2, 2023, 11:47 AM CST for 46 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 2, 2023, 8:00 PM CST. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2023, 11:47 AM CST (17:47 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 2, 2023, 8:00 PM CST
Expired: Mar 3, 2023, 5:48 AM CST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

All 46 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 229 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -360 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 436 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 2, 6:01 AM CST, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 6:01 AM CST, 5 hours 46 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
Mar 2, 8:30 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	53 hr
Mar 2, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	28 hr
Mar 2, 9:39 AM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	33 hr
Mar 2, 1:06 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	46 hr
Mar 2, 1:46 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	23 hr
Mar 2, 1:46 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	42 hr
Mar 2, 1:46 PM CST	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	48 hr
Mar 2, 2:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	55 min
Mar 2, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton	63 min
Mar 2, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	53 min
Mar 2, 2:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	43 min
Mar 2, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	35 min
Mar 2, 3:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	57 min
Mar 2, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	61 min
Mar 2, 4:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Stephens	29 min
Mar 2, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Grayson	55 min
Mar 2, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	67 min
Mar 2, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins	31 min
Mar 2, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	37 min
Mar 2, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Parker	61 min
Mar 2, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	60 min
Mar 2, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	63 min
Mar 2, 5:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Tarrant	55 min
Mar 2, 5:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hood, Somervell	66 min
Mar 2, 5:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mills	60 min
Mar 2, 5:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	55 min
Mar 2, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lampasas	64 min
Mar 2, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Denton	34 min
Mar 2, 5:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Johnson	78 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.