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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1987Bosque County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 313 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1987-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
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

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 DPS
Special 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 7:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDSmith3 hr
Jun 3, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan4 hr
Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell3 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.