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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 1987Tarrant County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1987, 5:19 AM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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: May 3, 1987, 5:19 AM CDT (10:19 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1987, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Tarrant 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
May 3, 5:37 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Tarrant, 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 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 severe thunderstorm 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, May 2, 11:28 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 12:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1230 AM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987

AT 1225 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWER 20 MILES IN
DIAMETER 35 MILES NORTH OF FORT WORTH. MOVEMENT W;AS NORTHEAST AT
30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, May 3, 1:30 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
130 AM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987

AT 125 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN HAS FORMED 40 MILES WEST OF MINERAL WELLS. [MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

Special weather statement, May 3, 2:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
225 AM CDT SUN MAY 03 1987

...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST EASTLAND COUNTY...

AT 2:20 AM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST CALLAHAN AND NORTHEAST COLEMAN COUNTIES.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING
INTO SOUTHWEST EASTLAND COUNTY NEAR RISING STAR WITHIN THE NEXT HALF
HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN.

LATER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS WARRANTED.

Special weather statement, May 3, 2:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
235 AM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987

AT 225 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN FOR 30 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST
OF FORT WORTH TO 30 MILES WEST OF BROWNWOOD.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 2:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Coleman	60 min
May 3, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	55 min
May 3, 3:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	60 min
May 3, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath, Palo Pinto	58 min
May 3, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker, Wise	67 min
May 3, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	80 min
May 3, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	40 min
May 3, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	59 min
May 3, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	65 min
May 3, 5:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	56 min
May 3, 5:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	61 min
May 3, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	65 min
May 3, 5:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	59 min
May 3, 5:53 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	52 min
May 3, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	64 min
May 3, 6:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, McLennan	61 min
May 3, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	57 min
May 3, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	62 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.