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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2025, 3:01 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 4, 2025, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Montague County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 748 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Aug 4, 1:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Montague | 50 min |
| Aug 4, 2:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Cooke | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 3:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 3:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Wise | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Wise | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 3:58 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Denton | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 4:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 4:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Parker | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 5:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Tarrant | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Dallas | 15 min |
| Aug 4, 5:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, Tarrant | 65 min |
| Aug 4, 5:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Kaufman | 32 min |
| Aug 4, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone, Navarro | 54 min |
| Aug 4, 6:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Freestone, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 7:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Freestone | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 7:05 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | McLennan | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 7:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 7:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Anderson | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 7:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 8:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Leon | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 8:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 8:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Somervell | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 8:37 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Hood | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 9:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Palo Pinto | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 9:44 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 11:38 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | FWD | Erath | 37 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.