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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1986, 4:55 PM CDT for Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1986, 4:55 PM CDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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 12:00Z, 9.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 17, 3:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
335 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1986
...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA...
AT 330 PM CDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF
BRYAN COLLEGE STATION TO THE SOUTHWEST OF BRYAN COLLEGE STATION.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TO THE EAST VERY SLOWLY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING..ALSO DUE TO THE SATURATED GROUNDS IN THE BRYAN COLLEGE
STATION AREA LOW LYING WATER CROSSING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD
BE AVOIDED.
[Special weather statement, Jun 17, 4:36 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
435 PM CDT TUE JUN 17 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS IN THE BRYAN COLLEGE STATION AREA...
AT 430 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS EXTEND FROM HEARNE TO
BRYAN COLLEGE STATION. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EASTWARD.
SOME LOCAL FLOODING COULD BE OCCURING IN THE LOW LYING WATER CROSSINGS
AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS DUE TO THE RECENT HEAVY RAINS AND SATURATED GROUNDS.
PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT THIS EVENING FOR THE THREAT OF FLOODING OR FLOOD
PRONE AREAS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED
OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.
s [The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Scurry | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brazos | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brazos | 2 hr |
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.