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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 13, 1986Nolan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 13, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT for Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1986, 7:55 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Nolan 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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
May 13, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNolan60 min
May 13, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher60 min
May 13, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise68 min
May 13, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones53 min
May 13, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHaskell, Jones60 min
May 13, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford, Throckmorton60 min
May 13, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Nolan63 min
May 13, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Baylor, Young60 min
May 13, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNolan55 min
May 13, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher, Mitchell60 min
May 13, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones, Taylor60 min
May 13, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Clay, Wichita60 min
May 13, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDStonewall65 min
May 13, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell60 min
May 14, 1:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHardeman43 min
May 14, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKnox60 min
May 14, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBaylor60 min
May 14, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFoard, Knox60 min
May 14, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWilbarger60 min
May 14, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger60 min
May 14, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDArcher60 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.