Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 355, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 7:49 PM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1986, 7:49 PM CDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1986, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erath 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
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 1818 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
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, 2:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 24, 5:02 PM CDT, 2 hours 47 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.
Special weather statement, May 24, 6:57 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 655 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN REISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS. THE WATCH WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM THIS EVENING AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...BELL..BOSQUE.. CORYELL..HILL..FALLS..MCLENNAN..LIMESTONE..LEON..BRAZOS..ROBERTSON.. AND MADISON... AT 6:50 PM..THE WACO RADAR WAS OUT OF SERVICE. HOWEVER OTHER WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN FREESTONE COUNTY BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO LEON COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..HAIL.. AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE OVER SOUTEAST MADISON COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST. FURTHER WEST..INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF THE STEPHENVILLE AREA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. < PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR< WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 69 min |
| May 24, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 75 min |
| May 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Mitchell, Scurry | 5 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.