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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1987McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1987, 7:48 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1987, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1987, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County McLennan 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jun 3, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 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.

Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
525 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987

TIME OF OCCURRENCE    EVENT

440 PM CDT............TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR ASA BY THE SHERIFFS OFFICE
                      ..MCLENNAN COUNTY
442 PM CDT............TORNADO SIGHTED NEAR RIESEL BY THE SHERIFFS
                      OFFICE.  IT WAS SHORT LIVED AND DID NO DAMAGE..
                      MCLENNAN COUNTY
450 PM CDT............MART POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
                      JUST SOUTH OF MART..MCLENNAN COUNTY
455 PM CDT............TORNADO ON THE GROUND 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOTT
                      IN FALLS COUNTY.  REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
500 PM CDT............DIME SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR HALLSBURG
                      IN MCLENNAN COUNTY.  REPORTED BY DPS.
510 PM CDT............MARBLE SIZE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS
                      ESTIMATED TO 40 MILES AN HOUR IN THE HALLSBURG
                      AREA IN MCLENNAN COUNTY.  REPORTED BY DPS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Smith	3 hr
Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Jun 3, 10:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.