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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 2025Young County, Texas

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.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 3, 1:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -85 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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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In the hours before

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

30

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 2:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack41 min
Apr 3, 3:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young41 min
Apr 3, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDCooke, Montague, Wise68 min
Apr 3, 4:37 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFannin23 min
Apr 3, 4:44 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDFannin16 min
Apr 3, 4:51 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDGrayson24 min
Apr 3, 4:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson46 min
Apr 3, 5:26 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDEastland, Stephens19 min
Apr 3, 5:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDEastland, Palo Pinto, Stephens57 min
Apr 3, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young57 min
Apr 3, 6:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDEastland, Erath, Palo Pinto, Stephens57 min
Apr 3, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Montague45 min
Apr 3, 6:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young42 min
Apr 3, 7:29 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJack, Montague46 min
Apr 3, 7:45 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryFWDJack3 hr
Apr 3, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Hopkins24 min
Apr 3, 1:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta35 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.