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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 5, 1986Navarro County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 5, 1986, 12:22 PM CST for Navarro County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 5, 1986, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
Expired
Feb 5, 1986, 1:30 PM CST
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Navarro County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-02-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 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, Longview/Gregg, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-02-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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, Feb 5, 9:44 AM CST, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 5, 11:29 AM CST, 53 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1125 AM CST WED FEB 5 1986

...THUNDERSTROMS WITH HAIL MOVING ACROSS THE AREA...

AT 11 25 AM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH WACO.  THIS IS FROM
A VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORM COVERING MOST OF MCLENNAN COUNTY.  IT IS
MOVING TO THE NORTHNORTHEAST AT NEAR 45 MPH.
RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS BOUNDED BY AUSTIN,COLLEGE STATION, FORT WORTH AND
BROWNWOOD.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENT AND
OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 5, 12:03 PM CST, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1200 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986

    ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NAVARRO COUNTY...

AT 1155 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF NAVARRO COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF DAWSON AND WAS
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH WACO DURING THE
PAST HOUR AND IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS. OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX
AND WACO AND WILL BE MOVING INTO ELLIS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

LISTEN TO NOAEA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 5, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson61 min
Feb 5, 2:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis45 min
Feb 5, 3:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Rains, Wood53 min
Feb 5, 3:22 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDFranklin, Hopkins53 min
Feb 5, 3:55 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDFranklin, Titus65 min
Feb 5, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDCamp65 min
Feb 5, 4:19 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDRed River41 min
Feb 5, 4:56 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDMorris, Red River, Titus64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.