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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 24, 1986Jones County, Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2343 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-181 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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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, May 24, 1:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 24, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
500 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR
PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS..INCLUDING MCLENNAN
AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES...

AT 2:50 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH
OF CORSICANA TO NORTH OF ABILENE. NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS
INDICATED IN THE MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES AT THE
PRESENT TIME. INTENSE STORMS ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP FROM NEAR
ABILENE TO THE MINERAL WELLS AREA AND MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER UPDATES IN
THE EVEYNT WARNINGS ARE REQUIRED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke43 min
May 24, 9:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke57 min
May 24, 9:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton62 min
May 24, 10:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Grayson64 min
May 24, 10:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Wise59 min
May 24, 10:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin54 min
May 24, 11:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall53 min
May 24, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant60 min
May 24, 12:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise64 min
May 24, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas59 min
May 24, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River66 min
May 24, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Titus65 min
May 24, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFranklin65 min
May 24, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Wise63 min
May 24, 1:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDenton, Wise3 hr
May 24, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant56 min
May 24, 2:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
May 24, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant64 min
May 24, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson53 min
May 24, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas53 min
May 24, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung70 min
May 24, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto65 min
May 24, 4:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas, Ellis3 hr
May 24, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Shackelford65 min
May 24, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher60 min
May 24, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens65 min
May 24, 4:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDWise4 hr
May 24, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro58 min
May 24, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Nolan75 min
May 24, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford75 min
May 24, 5:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack105 min
May 24, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone54 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens64 min
May 24, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro57 min
May 24, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell65 min
May 24, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath66 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.