Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 80, NWS Fort Worth, TX
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Jones, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wilbarger | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Kaufman | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell, Stonewall | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Callahan | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher, Jones, Nolan | 75 min |
| Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown, Coleman | 75 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.