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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 3, 1986Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1986, 8:30 AM CST for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 1986, 8:30 AM CST (14:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1986, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Wilbarger 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

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 1300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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, Apr 3, 7:43 AM CST, 47 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
Apr 2, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	63 min
Apr 2, 6:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Shackelford	60 min
Apr 2, 7:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	4 hr
Apr 2, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	60 min
Apr 2, 7:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	63 min
Apr 2, 8:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	56 min
Apr 2, 8:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	33 min
Apr 2, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	59 min
Apr 2, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens	42 min
Apr 3, 8:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Baylor	55 min
Apr 3, 8:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer, Wichita	60 min
Apr 3, 9:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	30 min
Apr 3, 9:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer, Wichita	60 min
Apr 3, 10:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer, Wichita	60 min
Apr 3, 11:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Archer, Wichita	60 min
Apr 3, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	60 min
Apr 3, 1:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	36 min
Apr 3, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	28 min
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	59 min
Apr 3, 5:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	63 min
Apr 3, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	64 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.