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Tornado Warning 85, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 30, 1986Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 1986, 7:10 PM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 30, 1986, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Sep 30, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor 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

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 00:00Z on 1986-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2042 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1986-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2042 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.5

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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, Sep 30, 1:19 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
 115  PM CDT  TUE SEP 30 1986

 AT 115 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT A THUNDERSTORM
HAD DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN DALLAS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE
EXPECTED TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
MOVEMENT OF THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES
AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AS WARRENTED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 30, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan60 min
Oct 1, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell55 min
Oct 1, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton60 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986

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.