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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 1986, 8:35 PM CST for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 1986, 8:35 PM CST (02:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1986, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Van Zandt 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 2157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 050235 TORFTW TXC467-050330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 835 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...VAN ZANDT AT 825 PM SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS..WITH A POSSIBLE BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OF A TORNADO..ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE PARENT STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM IS PART OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT CONTINUED ACROSS VAN ZANDT COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 4, 3:19 PM CST, 5 hours 16 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 310 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL...LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 3PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF DALLAS TO CLEBURNE TO MERIDIAN TO HAMILTON TO JUST NORTH OF SAN SABA. MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS EAST AT 5 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN CENTRAL TEXAS WERE ALONG THE BOSQUE..SOMMERVILLE COUNTY LINE AND IN WESTERN BOSQUE COUNTY 15 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MERIDIAN. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 5:08 PM CST, 3 hours 27 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 510 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL...LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 5PM CST WACO WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTHEAST OF DALLAS TO WAXAHACHIE WESTWARD TO NEAR CLEBURNE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NOTED BETWEEN WAXAHACHIE AND CLEBURNE. OTHER STORMS WERE IN AN AREA FROM FROM LONGVIEW TO ATHENS TO MEXIA. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN CORYELL COUNTY BETWEEN GATESVILLE AND MCGREGOR. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:49 PM CST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 645 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL..LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6:35 PM CST..RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DALLAS..ITALY..AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF HAMILTON. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PgERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED.
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 6:53 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 645 PM CST FRI APR 4 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR BOSQUE..HILL..LIMESTONE..CORYELL..MCLENNAN AND LEON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 6:35 PM CST..RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN DALLAS..ITALY..AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY. LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED FROM SOUTH FORT WORTH SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF HAMILTON. THESE STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PrERSONS IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TV/RADIO 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 6:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 65 min |
| Apr 4, 7:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wood | 57 min |
| Apr 4, 10:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Red River | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rockwall | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Hopkins | 67 min |
| Apr 5, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Titus | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Hopkins, Hunt, Rains, Rockwall | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 5:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Smith, Van Zandt | 4 hr |
| Apr 5, 12:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Henderson, Smith | 115 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.