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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2025, 3:04 AM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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 3, 2025, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Apr 3, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 12:48 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fort Worth TX
249 AM CDT Thu Apr 3 2025
TXZ100-101-116-030830-
Palo Pinto TX-Young TX-Jack TX-
249 AM CDT Thu Apr 3 2025
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of eastern Young,
western Jack and northwestern Palo Pinto Counties through 330 AM
CDT...
At 248 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles north of Possum Kingdom Lake, or 9 miles southeast of Graham,
moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
This strong thunderstorm will be near...
Bryson around 300 AM CDT.
Other locations impacted by this storm include Jermyn, Antelope,
Jean, and Loving.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 800 AM CDT for
north central Texas.
&&
LAT...LON 3339 9862 3340 9842 3345 9842 3345 9798
3286 9849 3291 9858 3295 9858 3296 9865
TIME...MOT...LOC 0748Z 211DEG 52KT 3298 9851
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH
30The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague, Wise | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 4:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 4:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Fannin | 16 min |
| Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Grayson | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:26 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 19 min |
| Apr 3, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 6:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 7:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Jack, Montague | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 7:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | FWD | Jack | 3 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 24 min |
| Apr 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Delta | 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.