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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1987Falls County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1987, 4:58 PM CDT for Falls County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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
Jun 3, 1987, 4:58 PM CDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1987, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Falls 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDTTornado F0Falls, TX
Jun 3, 5:20 PM CDTTornado F0Falls, 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 1987-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 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 1987-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KACT 032158
TORACT
TXC145-032300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
458 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
          ...FALLS
 
AT 458 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LOTT TEXAS AND THE
FALLS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND AT THAT
SAME LOCATION AT THE SAME TIME. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY NORTH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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 3, 12:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1200 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE SECTION OF SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS INCLUDING BRAZOS..MADISON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES FOR
TODAY...

AT 1155 AM CDT LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OCCURRING OVER MOST OF BRAZOS COUNTY.  THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE..LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WERE ISOLATED OVER WESTERN BELL
COUNTY NEAR KILLEEN..WESTERN CORYELL COUNTY NEAR EVANT AND NORTHERN
HILL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES.

THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS MOVED OUT OF CORYELL COUNTY..HOWEVER VERY
HEAVY RAIN IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY DUMPED 2.68 INCHES OF
RAIN IN TWO HOURS IN THE TOWN OF BEE HOUSE.  THE RUNOFF FROM THIS
RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING DOWN BEE HOUSE CREEK AND INTO COW HOUSE
CREEK NEAR FORT HOOD.  PERSONS ALONG BEE HOUSE CREEK SHOULD BE ON
THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS RUNOFF AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND SHOULD FLOODING BE OBSERVED.  PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST
TEXAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING AND SHOULD
BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE
AND PROPERTY SHOULD THE NEED OCCUR.  DOk NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH
WATER EITHER IN VEHICLES OR ON FOOT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.
1
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
NORTH TEXAS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1145 AM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING OVER A PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IS OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS...GENERALLY EAST
OF A PARIS...GREENVILLE...CORSICANA...CENTERVILLE LINE. HEAVY RAIN IS
ALSO A STRONG POSSIBILITY SINCE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS TEND TO MOVE
SLOWLY ONCE THEY FORM.

LATE THIS MORNING A COLD FRONT HAD WALLOWED DOWN INTO NORTHEAST TEXAS
FROM THE SHREVEPORT AREA WEST TO NEAR WACO. THIS FRONT WAS INTERACTING
WITH A BOUNDARY SEPARATING WARM...MOIST AIR...FROM AN AIRMASS COOLED
BY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS LAST NIGHT. THE BOUNDARY STRETCHED ROUGHLY
FROM THE FRONT EAST OF DALLAS...SOUTH TO NEAR HOUSTON. THUNDERSTORMS
FORMING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY...AND PARTICULARLY THOSE NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF THE BOUNDARY AND THE COLD FRONT...OFFER THE GREATEST
POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AS HEATING
CONTINUES IN THE RELATIVELY UNDISTURBED AIR TO THE EAST.

ELSEWHERE OVER NORTH TEXAS THUNDERSTORMS MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON IN
RESPONSE TO A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SITUATED OVER
CENTRAL TEXAS NEAR STEPHENVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS OFFER LESS CHANCE
FOR SEVERE WEATHER SINCE DAYTIME HEATING IS EXPECTED TO BE LIMITED DUE
TO CLOUD COVER AND NORTHERLY WINDS.

STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS OVER EAST TEX~AS MAY WANT TO STAY ON THE ALERT
IN CASE ACTIVATION IS REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

03
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 3:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
310 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

     ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT...
AT 308 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SOME SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. DUE TO THE
SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORM...HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY ALONG THE
PATH OF THE STORM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST TEXAS. LISTEN
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 11:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrazos4 hr
Jun 3, 1:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCoryell4 hr
Jun 3, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan4 hr
Jun 3, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan57 min
Jun 3, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith30 min
Jun 3, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith44 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.