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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 1986, 4:56 PM CST for Morris County, Red River County, Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Feb 5, 1986, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morris County, TX, Red River County, TX, Titus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 5:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Red River, 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
Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 052325 COR TORFTW TXC343-387-449-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 456 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST TEXAS...MORRIS...RED RIVER AND TITUS AT 450PM..TORNADOES WERE INDICATED BY RADAR NORTHEAST OF TALCO IN RED RIVER COUNTY AND NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT IN TITUS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE PAST HOUR GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERED THE GROUND IN TALCO AND WIND DAMAGE TO TREES HAS OCCURRED.
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, Feb 5, 11:29 AM CST, 5 hours 27 minutes before
^FTWSPSACT SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 1125 AM CST WED FEB 5 1986 ...THUNDERSTROMS WITH HAIL MOVING ACROSS THE AREA... AT 11 25 AM MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH WACO. THIS IS FROM A VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORM COVERING MOST OF MCLENNAN COUNTY. IT IS MOVING TO THE NORTHNORTHEAST AT NEAR 45 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THIS STORM TO BE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BOUNDED BY AUSTIN,COLLEGE STATION, FORT WORTH AND BROWNWOOD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENT AND OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Feb 5, 12:03 PM CST, 4 hours 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1200 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NAVARRO COUNTY...
AT 1155 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF NAVARRO COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF DAWSON AND WAS
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH WACO DURING THE
PAST HOUR AND IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS. OTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX
AND WACO AND WILL BE MOVING INTO ELLIS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
LISTEN TO NOAEA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR ADDITIONAL
STATEMENTS.Special weather statement, Feb 5, 1:42 PM CST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 135 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE DEVELOPING OVER NORTH TEXAS... AT 130 PM..NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE EXTREME NORTH- EASTERN PORTION OF BOSQUE COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS NORTH- ERN HILL COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN JOHNSON OR WESTERN ELLIS COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY. THESE VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALSO COVERED MOST OF THE DALLAS/ FORT WOR\TH METROPLEX. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 68 min |
| Feb 5, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 61 min |
| Feb 5, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 45 min |
| Feb 5, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Rains, Wood | 53 min |
| Feb 5, 3:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Franklin, Hopkins | 53 min |
| Feb 5, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Franklin, Titus | 65 min |
| Feb 5, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Camp | 65 min |
| Feb 5, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Red River | 41 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.