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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 16, 202346 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this wind advisory at Mar 16, 2023, 7:39 AM CDT for 46 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 16, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 16, 2023, 7:39 AM CDT (12:39 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 16, 2023, 5:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 17, 2023, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 17 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 12:39 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, 0.7 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 16, 5:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 5:59 AM CDT, 1 hour 40 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 16, 7:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	44 hr
Mar 16, 7:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	42 hr
Mar 16, 1:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Stephens	33 min
Mar 16, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	39 min
Mar 16, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker	50 min
Mar 16, 2:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Anderson	32 min
Mar 16, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Jack	26 min
Mar 16, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	37 min
Mar 16, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	43 min
Mar 16, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	48 min
Mar 16, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	39 min
Mar 16, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	34 min
Mar 16, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	25 min
Mar 16, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Tarrant	28 min
Mar 16, 4:42 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Mar 16, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	60 min
Mar 16, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	44 min
Mar 16, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	28 min
Mar 16, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas	19 min
Mar 16, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	47 min
Mar 16, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Ellis, Johnson	57 min
Mar 16, 5:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	3 hr
Mar 16, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall	38 min
Mar 16, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	62 min
Mar 16, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	40 min
Mar 16, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque	34 min
Mar 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Fannin	36 min
Mar 16, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Ellis, Johnson, Navarro	49 min
Mar 16, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Van Zandt	38 min
Mar 16, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	40 min
Mar 16, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, Rockwall, Van Zandt	53 min
Mar 16, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	66 min
Mar 16, 6:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Dallas, Johnson, Rockwall	27 min
Mar 16, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Kaufman	39 min
Mar 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	62 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.