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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 19, 1987Callahan County, Shackelford County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1987, 6:02 PM CDT for Callahan County, Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 1987, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1987, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Callahan County, TX, Shackelford 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 1987-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2548 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 1987-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
2548 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABI 192302
SVRABI
TXC059-417-441-200000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
602 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
          ...CALLAHAN...SHACKELFORD...NORTHEASTERN TAYLOR
 
AT 602 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF THE
ABILENE AIRPORT AND 1 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF
TOWN. ALSO, THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALBANY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.
 
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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, Jun 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
305 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN 1/3
OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 9 MP CDT TONIGHT.  THE WATCH INCLUDES THE
FOLLOWING NORTCH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNTIES...COMANCHE...COOKE...EASTLAND
...ERATH...HAMILTON...HOOD...PALO PINTO...PARKER...SOMERVELL...
STEPHENS...AND WISE.

AT 305 PM CDT AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTOMS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE
EXTENDED FROM MONTAGUE TO SHERMAN TO HUGO OKLAHOMA.  THE AREA WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST TO 30 MPH.  THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED OVER THE SHERMAN DENISON AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED
PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS IN SHERMAN.

THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COULD INTENSIFY AS IT MOVEDS FURTHER SOUTH
INTO NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENPTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. LISTEN
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER
UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
 330 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND
CENTRAL TEXAS FROM 300 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL 900 PM THIS
EVENING...INCLUDING BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS...INCLUDING HILL COUNTY...

AT 325 PM CDT NO PRECIPITATION WAS INDICATED IN OR NEAR THE WACO
AREA...BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF DALLAS ALONG THE
RED RIVER MOVING SOUTHEAST.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NORTH OF ABILENE AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..TV..OR RADIO FOR F^URTHER
STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 3:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
335 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN 1/3 OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL
9 MP CDT TONIGHT.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
MOST OF THE REMAINED OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TONIGHT.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES FOLLOWING COUNTIES NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS COUNTIES...COLLIN...COOKE...DALLAS...
DENTON...ELLIS...FANNIN...FREESTONE...GRAYSON...HODD...HUNT...
JOHNSON...KAUFMAN...NAVARRO...PARKER...ROCKWALL...SOMERVELL...TARRANT
...WISE...ANDERSON...CAMP...CHEROKEE...DELTA...FRANKLIN...HENDERSON
...HOPKINS...LAMAR...MORRIS...RAINS...RED RIVER...SMITH...TITUS...
UPSHUR...VAN ZANDT...AND WOOD.

AT 330 PM CDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE WAS
LOCATED ALONG A GAINSVILLE..SHERMAN...BONHAM...HUGO OKLAHOMA LINE.
MOVEMENT OF THE AREA WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE SHERMAN AREA AND THIS
THUNDERSTORM HAS STOPPED MOVING SOUTH AND IS DEVELOPING NORTHWARD
TOWARDS THE DENISON AREA.  ANOTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF DENISON AND SHOULD MERGE WITH THE FIRST
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE DENISON AREA.  THE RESULT SHOULD BE AN
DRAMATIC INTENSIFICATION OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE DENISON AREA.
IF YOU ARE IN THIS AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS FOR HIGH WIND...
INTENSE HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE FLOODING...eHAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. LISTEN
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER
UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
418 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN 1/3 OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL
9 PM CDT TONIGHT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR
MOST OF THE REMAINED OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TONIGHT.

THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH
AREA BUT IT IS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA.

AT 418 PM CDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR
SHERMAN NORTHEASTWARD INTO OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
BETWEEN SHERMAN AND BONHAM AND JUST NORTH OF BONHAM ALONG THE RED
RIVER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE WESTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS
FROM NEAR ANSON TO NEAR HASKELL.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
458 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR FANNIN
AND LAMAR COUNTIES.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL
9 PM CDT TONIGHT.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE REMAINDER
OF NORTH TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TONIGHT.

THE DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH
AREA BUT IS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA.

AT 455 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED BETWEEN
BONHAM AND PARIS AND NORTWEST OF PARIS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WILL
MOVE OVER THE CITY OF PARIS BY 510 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS YOU SHOULD MOVE
INTO THE INTERIOR OF A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. YOU CAN
EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THESE
THUNDERSTORMS PASS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 5:48 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
545 PM CDT FRI JUN 19 1987

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BOSQUE AND CORYELL COUNTIES UNTIL
900 PM THIS EVENING...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR HILL COUNTY UNTIL
1000 PM THIS EVENING...

AT 540 PM CDT NO THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING IN BOSQUE..CORYELL OR
HILL COUNTIES.  VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR ABILENE
TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS.  THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS
AREA IS ABOUT 120 MILES NORTHWEST OF WACO. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED FROM NEAR PARIS TO NEAR TEXARKANA.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CORYELL..BOSQUE AND HILL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT
FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL
THIS EVENING.  STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall66 min
Jun 19, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKnox60 min
Jun 19, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Jones56 min
Jun 19, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFisher, Jones58 min
Jun 19, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin, Lamar67 min
Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher, Haskell, Jones60 min
Jun 19, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Red River55 min
Jun 19, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton63 min
Jun 19, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor58 min
Jun 19, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.