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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1986, 7:00 AM CST for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1986, 7:00 AM CST (13:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1986, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Throckmorton 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 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 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 19, 3:02 AM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 300 AM CST SAT APR 19 1986 AT 300 AM CST RADAR INDICTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF LAMAR COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST PART OF RED RIVER COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE TOWNS OF POWDERLY..PINHOOK..KANAWHA..AND DAVENPORT BE PREPARED OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER MUCH OF FANNIN COUNTY AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF LAMAR COUNTY. LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OF TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND IF NEEDED WARNINGS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 6:09 AM CST, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 605 AM CST SAT APR 19 1986 AT 605 AM CST A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF MUNSTER IN COOKE COUNTY. MOVEMEMT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST A 35 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS WILL THREATEN THE NORTHERN HALF OF COOKE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND STRONDG WINDS. LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OF TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND IF NEEDED WARNINGS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton | 60 min |
| Apr 18, 7:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 50 min |
| Apr 18, 7:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 7:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Jones, Nolan | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 7:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Nolan | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 7:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 7:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fisher, Jones | 85 min |
| Apr 19, 8:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Young | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 8:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Young | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 9:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 9:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 10:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 10:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 10:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 10:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 80 min |
| Apr 19, 11:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 68 min |
| Apr 19, 11:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 49 min |
| Apr 19, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 18 min |
| Apr 19, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 78 min |
| Apr 19, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 12:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Callahan | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith, Van Zandt | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 12:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 1:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 1:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Smith, Van Zandt | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 1:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Fannin, Grayson | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 1:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wood | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Callahan | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Upshur | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 2:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche | 63 min |
| Apr 19, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Franklin, Titus | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Morris | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 2:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Camp, Morris, Upshur | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 2:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Red River | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 3:06 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Wood | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Titus | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 35 min |
| Apr 19, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 55 min |
| Apr 19, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Limestone | 40 min |
| Apr 19, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 5:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 60 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.