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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1986, 2:27 PM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1986, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1986, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Comanche County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Comanche, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 2479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KFTW 081927
TORFTW
TXC093-082000-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
227 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
..COMANCHE
AT 225 PM THE COMANCHE COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED THAT A TORNADO
BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN 15 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF COMANCHE IN COMANCHE
COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30
MPH. RESIDENTS IN NORTHERN COMANCHE COUNTY SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE
SKY AND REMAIN ALERT IN CASE ADDITIONAL TORNADOES FORM.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Stonewall | 75 min |
| May 7, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 60 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Stonewall | 65 min |
| May 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Scurry | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 62 min |
| May 7, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 62 min |
| May 8, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Callahan | 60 min |
| May 8, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 62 min |
| May 8, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 64 min |
| May 8, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 60 min |
| May 8, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 59 min |
| May 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 min |
| May 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 56 min |
| May 8, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer, Wichita | 60 min |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 10 min |
| May 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 60 min |
| May 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 50 min |
| May 8, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 min |
| May 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 56 min |
| May 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 60 min |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 52 min |
| May 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.