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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 433, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 25, 1986Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1986, 10:20 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 25, 1986, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 1986, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Stonewall 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Sep 25, 7:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
730 PM CDT THU SEP 25 1986

  ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING FROM NORTHERN SMITH INTO SOUTHERN
                    UPSHUR COUNTY OF EAST TEXAS...

AT 725PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
WAS NEAR BIG SANDY IN UPSHUR COUNTY. THE UPSHUR SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT
REPORTS THAT THIS THUNDERSTORMS IS PRODUCING HIGH WINDS..HAIL AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH..AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF
UPSHUR COUNTY..INCLUDING GILMER..DURING THE NEXT 30 TO 60 MINUTES.
MOTORISTS AND THOSE ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN UPSHUR COUNTY ARE
URGED TO MAINTAIN CAUTION AND SEEK INTERIOR SHELTER IF NECESSARY
AS THIS STORM APPROACHES.

Special weather statement, Sep 25, 7:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
745 PM CDT THU SEP 25 1986

...THUNDERSSTORM MOVING THROUGH MCLENNAN AND CORYELL COUNTIES OF
CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 7:40 PM..RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS  NEAR MCGREGOR IN MCLENNAN
COUNTY...AND NEAR GATESVILLE IN CORYELL COUNTY. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN SHOULD BE
EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS WEST OF BROWNWOOD
AND BETWEEN LAMPASAS AND MARBLE FALLS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, Sep 25, 7:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
755 PM CDT THU SEP 25 1986

  ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED IN EASTERN RED RIVER COUNTY...

AT 755 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
HAS DEVELOPED IN EASTERN RED RIVER COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORMS
WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

MOTORISTS AND THOSE ENGAGED IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IN EASTERN RED RIVER
COUNTY ARE URGED TO MAINTAIN CAUTION AND SEEK INTERIOR SHELTER IF
NECESSARY AS THIS STORM APPROACHES.

Special weather statement, Sep 25, 9:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 9:58 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 25, 10:06 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Callahan	44 min
Sep 25, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	50 min
Sep 25, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stonewall	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986 Every 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.