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Tornado Warning 80, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 16, 1986Jones County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT for Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 70 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
Jun 16, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Jones 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDTTornado F0Jones, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2129 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, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
779 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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.

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, Jun 16, 1:15 PM CDT, 4 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
110 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DRIFT SOUTH DEEPER INTO NORTH TEXAS...

AT 1:00 PM CDT..AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS ALONG A VALLEY VIEW..SULPHUR SPRINGS LINE. WHILE THE
EASTERN END OF THE AREA WAS ALMOST STATIONARY..THE WESTERN PART WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED OVER
GRAYSON COUNTY WHERE SHORTLY AFTER NOON THE GRAYSON COUNTY AIRPORT
REPORTED HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH WINDS GUSTING TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. AT
1 PM VALLEY VIEW REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND GUST TO 49 MILES AN HOUR.

MEANWHILE..THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER NORTH TEXAS
THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SUN HEATS UP THE DEEP LAYER OF WARM MOIST AIR
THAT COVERS MOST OF THIS AREA. THE DALLAS..FORT WORTH METROPLEX SHOULD
FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THESE FEATURES LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS THUNDERSTORMS
SHOULD STRIKE THE AREA ABOUT 4 PM OR AT THE START OF PEAK RUSH HOUR
TRAFFIC WHILE GOING HOME.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
150 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN PORTION OF THE METROPLEX...

AT 1:50 PM CDT..THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY
RAINS WERE MOVING THOUGH SOUTHERN DENTON AND COLLIN COUNTIES. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO DALLAS
AND TARRANT COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50
MPH ARE EXPECTED AS WELL AS BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

MEANWHILE..THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE OVER NORTH TEXAS ALONG
THE RED RIVER AND IN NORTHEAST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME GUSTY WIND AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. MOST OF
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 15 MPH.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
350 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR
BOSQUE..CORYELL..FALLS..HILL..LEON..LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES
OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 345 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL..EXTENDED FROM 70 MILES EAST OF DALLAS TO 20 MILES NORTH
OF HILLSBORO TO 20 MILES EAST OF MINERAL WELLS.  THE LINE WAS MOVING
TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO
40 MILES AN HOUR HAVE REPORTED IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE
THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION TO PROTECT
LIFEI AND PROPERTY SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER OCCUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
410 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

THE SEVERE STORMS CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A
LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING.
THIS INCLUDES THE DALLAS..FORT WORTH METROPLEX AND THE TYLER VICINITY.

AT 4:05 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD REACHED
A CANTON..CORSICANA..GLEN ROSE LINE. PRECIPITATION EXTENDED BACK NORTH
BEHIND THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE METROPLEX AND HUNT
AND COLLIN COUNTIES. SMITH..HENDERSON..AND NAVARRO COUNTIES ARE NEXT IN
LINE TO FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTH AT
30 MILES AN HOUR.

REMEMBER..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS
SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHbER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN
FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
5 PM CDT MON JUN 16 1986

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION
OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 900 PM CDT THIS MONDAY EVENING. THE WATCH
INCLUDES THE DALLAS..FORT WORTH METROPLEX AND THE TYLER VICINITY.

AT 4:55 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR QUITMAN IN WOOD COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR WACO THEN
NORTHWESTWARD TO NEAR THROCKMORTON. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED FROM NEAR TYLER TO NEAR QUITMAN. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
MOVING SOUTH AT 20 TO 30 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER
EXTREME EAST TEXAS. THESE STORMS WERE SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. AS
THE THUNDERSTORM LINE MERGES WITH THESE EAST TEXAS THUNDERSTORMS..
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OCCUR.

REMEMBER..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS
SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND
LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 2:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWilbarger65 min
Jun 16, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Tarrant64 min
Jun 16, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Kaufman58 min
Jun 16, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson58 min
Jun 16, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan52 min
Jun 16, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Stonewall62 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor60 min
Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCallahan60 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Jones, Nolan75 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown, Coleman75 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.