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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1987, 10:09 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1987, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1987, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bosque 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 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
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
Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 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 DPSSpecial weather statement, Jun 3, 8:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 8 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987 SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR BONHAM TO DALLAS TO LAMPASAS THIS EVENING. SOME WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMITH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS REMAINS UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 10 PM. CDT TODAY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE AREA IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. A GRADUAL DECREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DURING THIS EVENING AS DRIER AIR FILTERS INTO THE NORTH TEXAS AREA FROM THE NORTH. THE DRY AIR INTRUSION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THROUGH NORTH $TEXAS DURING THE DAY. THE FRONT AT 8 PM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE COASTAL PLAINS. STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED TO KEEP NORTH TEXAS RESIDENTS UPDATED WITH RESPECT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 9 PM CDT WED JUN 3 1987 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SMITH COUNTY UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING... AT 855 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...WERE OCCURRING BETWEEN TYLER AND WACO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF PALESTINE AND SOUTH OF HENDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY TO THE WEST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING AHEAD OF A LOW PRESSURE AREA IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE. A GRADUAL DECREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR DURING LATE EVENING AND NIGHTTIME HOURS AS DRIER AIR FILTERS INTO THE NORTH TEXAS AREA FROM THE NORTH. THE DRY AIR INTRUSION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT THROUGH NORTH TEXAS DURING THE DAY. THE FRONT AT 9 PM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE COASTAL PLAINS. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED TO KEEP NORTH TEXASv RESIDENTS UPDATED WITH RESPECT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 3 hr |
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.