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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 28, 20244 counties in Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this high wind warning at Apr 28, 2024, 10:40 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 39 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: Apr 28, 2024, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2024, 11:19 AM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX

Counties Bosque County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Hill County, TX, McLennan County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 792 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Apr 28, 5:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 5:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 5:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:44 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:51 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 10:34 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
1034 AM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1010 AM     Non-Tstm Wnd Gst 4 NW Waco               31.61N 97.23W
04/28/2024  M59 MPH          McLennan           TX   ASOS

            59 MPH wind gust measured at Waco Regional
            Airport on back edge of dissipating
            thunderstorms.

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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
Apr 27, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	25 min
Apr 27, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	44 min
Apr 27, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	56 min
Apr 27, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Young	54 min
Apr 28, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	63 min
Apr 28, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens	50 min
Apr 28, 1:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	3 hr
Apr 28, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Montague, Wise	40 min
Apr 28, 1:52 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rockwall	55 hr
Apr 28, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cooke	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Wise	42 min
Apr 28, 2:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Parker	42 min
Apr 28, 2:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Tarrant	39 min
Apr 28, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Denton	33 min
Apr 28, 3:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Grayson	40 min
Apr 28, 3:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Comanche	47 min
Apr 28, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas, Mills	39 min
Apr 28, 3:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	43 min
Apr 28, 3:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton, Somervell	24 min
Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Cooke, Montague	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	4 hr
Apr 28, 4:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:32 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Kaufman, Rockwall	4 hr
Apr 28, 4:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:59 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	3 hr
Apr 28, 5:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bosque, Ellis, Hill, Johnson	4 hr
Apr 28, 5:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	16 hr
Apr 28, 5:31 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	58 hr
Apr 28, 5:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, Johnson	2 hr
Apr 28, 6:20 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Lampasas, McLennan	3 hr
Apr 28, 6:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	15 hr
Apr 28, 6:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	39 min
Apr 28, 7:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	3 hr
Apr 28, 7:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	FWD	Kaufman	3 hr
Apr 28, 8:28 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Ellis, Kaufman	3 days
Apr 28, 8:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Hunt	34 hr
Apr 28, 9:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Kaufman	2 hr
Apr 28, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	26 min
Apr 28, 9:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls	27 min
Apr 28, 10:23 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins	18 hr
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	21 days
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	23 hr
Apr 28, 10:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Collin	32 hr
Apr 28, 1:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	2 hr
Apr 28, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone	46 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	58 min
Apr 28, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	53 min
Apr 28, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	49 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Milam, Robertson	47 min
Apr 28, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	3 hr
Apr 28, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Robertson	45 min
Apr 28, 3:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Milam	28 min
Apr 28, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone	38 min
Apr 28, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	60 min
Apr 28, 4:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Apr 28, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	66 min
Apr 28, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson	35 min
Apr 28, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	50 min
Apr 28, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	51 min
Apr 28, 6:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Leon	35 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.