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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 30, 1986Wichita County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 1986, 3:10 PM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1986, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1986, 4:10 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Wichita 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1986-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 453 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 1986-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
453 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
293 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Wichita60 min
Apr 30, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls60 min
Apr 30, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton65 min
Apr 30, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague50 min

Nearby

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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.