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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1987, 6:05 PM CDT for Nolan County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1987, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1987, 6:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- 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, 11.1 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -467 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 2, 3:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ENNIS IN ELLIS COUNTY...
AT 320 PM...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ENNIS
IN ELLIS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS...DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE
SMALL TO LARGE HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT
30 MILES AN HOUR.
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE
SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHERN HALF OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SOME
OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE HILL AND NAVARRO
COUNTY LINE AROUND HUBBARD AND DAWSON. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PARTS OF THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM NOW OVER ELLIS COUNTY WILL LIKELY MOVE
INTO SOUTHEAST DALLAS COUNTY AROUND 340 PM. PERSONS IN DALLAS AND
ELLIS COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
INCREASING OVER YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS SHOULDc CONDITIONS WARRANT.Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987
TIME OF OCCURRENCE EVENT
115 PM CDT STRONG WINDS IN FLAT TEXAS. BLEW DOWN A SHED
AT A LUMBERYARD AND TREES WEST OF TOWN.
CORYELL COUNTY REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER.
147 PM CDT TORNADO IN THE JONESBORO AREA...NORTHERN
CORYELL COUNTY BY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY.
COUNTY. REPORTED BY DPS.
220 PM CDT TORNADO JUST NORTH OF VALLEY MILLS...
BOSQUE COUNTY...RELAYED BY MCLENNAN COUNTY
p S.O.
240 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUD JUST E OF HUBBARD...HILL COUNTY
REPORTED BY DPS.Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 350 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 ...A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ELLIS COUNTY UNTIL 415 PM... AT 340 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF ENNIS IN ELLIS COUNTY BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. ANOTHER LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED JUST SOUTHWEST OF MIDLOTHIAN IN ELLIS COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS OVER NORTHEAST ELLIS COUNTY BETWEEN PALMER AND FERRIS. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN JOHNSON...EASTERN DALLAS...AND NORTHWEST NAVARRO COUNTIES. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE TORNADO WARNING AREA ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN IN A SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE THREATENING WEATHER HAS PASSED. RESIDENTS IN DALLAS COUNTY SHOULD KEEP ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING OR MOVING INTO YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987
TIME OF OCCURRENCE EVENT
115 PM CDT STRONG WINDS IN FLAT TEXAS. BLEW DOWN A SHED
AT A LUMBERYARD AND TREES WEST OF TOWN.
CORYELL COUNTY REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER.
147 PM CDT TORNADO IN THE JONESBORO AREA...NORTHERN
CORYELL COUNTY BY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
SAFETY.
215 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUD JUST SOUTHEAST OF WHITNEY...
HILL COUNTY. REPORTED BY DPS.
220 PM CDT TORNADO JUST NORTH OF VALLEY MILLS...
BOSQUE COUNTY...RELAYED BY MCLENNAN COUNTY
S.O.
240 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUD JUST E OF HUBBARD...HILL COUNTY
REPORTED BY DPS.Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
340 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987
TIME OF OCCURRENCE EVENT
115 PM CDT STRONG WINDS IN FLAT TEXAS. BLEW DOWN A
SHED AT A LUMBERYARD AND TREES WEST OF
TOWN. CORYELL COUNTY. REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER.
147 PM CDT TORNADO IN THE JONESBORO AREA...NORTHERN
CORYELL COUNTY. REPORTED BY DPS.
215 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUD JUST SOUTHEAST OF WHITNEY...
HILL COUNTY. REPORTED BY DPS.
220 PM CDT TORNADO JUST NORTH OF VALLEY MILLS...IN
BOSQUE COUNTY. RELAYED BY MCLENNAN COUNTY
S.O.
240 PM CDT FUNNEL CLOUD JUST EAST OF HUBBARD...HILL
COUNTY. REPORTED BY DPS.Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:38 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 535 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING BRAZOS...ROBERTSON AND MADISON COUNTIES... AT 528 CDT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING FROM EAST OF DALLAS TO COLLEGE STATION. RAIN WAS WIDESPREAD FOR 50 MILES TO THE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM DALLAS TO SAN ANTONIO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 M?ILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 3:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Ellis | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 49 min |
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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.