Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1986, 4:53 PM CST for Fisher County, Mitchell County, Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1986, 4:53 PM CST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1986, 5:55 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fisher County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 5:29 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Fisher, TX | |
| Apr 25, 5:45 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Fisher, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 3:33 PM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY 230 PM MST FRI APR 25 1986 ...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FT TONIGHT... AND SATURDAY... ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR LAKE POWELL CONTINUED TONIGHT... A WINTER STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR UTAHS NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ABOVE 6000 FOOT ELEVATIONS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. HEAVY WET SNOW IS EXPECTED FROM A MAJOR WINTER STORM WHICH WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN UTAH TONIGHT AND LINGER THROUGH SATURDAY. A FOOT OR MORE OF NEW SNOW IS LIKELY FOR THE MOUNTAINS BY LATE SATURDAY. ALSO A FEW INCHES OF SNOW SHOULD ACCUMULATE TO THE LOWER VALLEYS OF THE CACHE AND WASATCH FRONT COMMUNITIES LATER TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. A VIGOROUS COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE ACROSS NORTHWEST UTAH BETWEEN 5 AND 6PM THIS EVENING. WASATCH FRONT COMMUTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY SHIFTING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ASSOCIATED WITH A FRONTAL THUNDERSHOWER BAND. LIVESTOCK AND SHEEP RANCHERS SHOULD PROTECT THEIR ANIMALS AND NEWBORNS FROM WET COLD WINDY CONDITIONS OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH SOME HIGHER GUSTS ARE COMMON THIS AFTERNOON IN WESTERN UTAH AND IN THE LAKE POWELL AREA AND SHOULD PERSIST TONIGHT WITH HIGHER GUSTS NEAR THUNDERSHOWERS. FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE LIKELY SUNDAY MORNING OVER WESTERN UTAH. ALL FRUIT AND GARDENING INTERESTS SHOULD STAY TUNE TO LATEST AGRICULTURAL BULLETINS FOR PROBABLE WARNINGS ASSOCIATED WITH EXPECTED PLUNGE IN TEMPERATURES AT OR BELOW THE FREEZING MARK. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. SIU/2130Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Scurry | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Jones, Nolan | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 65 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.