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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Fort Worth, TX

July 6, 2026Rains County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2026, 8:55 PM CDT for Rains County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
Jul 6, 2026, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2026, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Rains County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 2026-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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 2026-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-332 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 7:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant39 min
Jul 6, 7:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDTarrant35 min
Jul 6, 7:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHopkins46 min
Jul 6, 7:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton36 min
Jul 6, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins37 min
Jul 6, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Denton, Tarrant45 min
Jul 6, 8:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDCollin46 min
Jul 6, 8:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDRains38 min
Jul 6, 8:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDParker35 min
Jul 6, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker22 min
Jul 6, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDenton39 min
Jul 6, 9:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt34 min
Jul 6, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt50 min
Jul 6, 10:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt37 min
Jul 7, 1:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDDelta35 min
Jul 7, 2:13 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDelta, Lamar2 hr
Jul 7, 2:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHenderson, Van Zandt3 hr
Jul 7, 3:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHood42 min
Jul 7, 4:02 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHunt28 min
Jul 7, 5:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDHill30 min
Jul 7, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill48 min
Jul 7, 6:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFWDJohnson30 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.