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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 19, 2025Jack County, Montague County, Wise County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2025, 3:46 PM CDT for Jack County, Montague County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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: May 19, 2025, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 19, 2:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 2312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 9.6

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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 May 19, 1:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 1:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 11:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 11:53 AM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 3:03 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 3:04 PM CDT, 42 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
May 18, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Palo Pinto	38 min
May 18, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	60 min
May 18, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Erath, Palo Pinto	34 min
May 18, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker	66 min
May 18, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker	79 min
May 18, 8:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	2 hr
May 18, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	21 min
May 18, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Denton	40 min
May 18, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	67 min
May 18, 9:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	3 hr
May 18, 9:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	39 min
May 18, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin	13 min
May 18, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	18 min
May 18, 11:32 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Denton	28 hr
May 19, 8:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FWD	Wise	30 hr
May 19, 8:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Lampasas	34 min
May 19, 9:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	Coryell	27 min
May 19, 9:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FWD	McLennan	31 min
May 19, 9:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill, Johnson	28 min
May 19, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro	25 min
May 19, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	26 min
May 19, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	57 min
May 19, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	47 min
May 19, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Montague	63 min
May 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	16 min
May 19, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	40 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Montague	54 min
May 19, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	65 min
May 19, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	3 hr
May 19, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	57 min
May 19, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	56 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.