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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 20, 2025Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 20, 2025, 8:03 PM CST for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
Nov 20, 2025, 8:03 PM CST (02:03 UTC)
Expired
Nov 20, 2025, 8:45 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Anderson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2025-11-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 34 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2025-11-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 20, 6:07 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDNavarro38 min
Nov 20, 6:14 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDKaufman46 min
Nov 20, 7:00 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRains, Van Zandt45 min
Nov 20, 7:59 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementFWDAnderson31 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.