Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1987
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1987, 10:45 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1987, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1987, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Throckmorton 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 3050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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 17, 6:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
630 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1987
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND EAST TEXAS INCLUDING THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
...BOSQUE...HILL...LIMESTONE...FALLS...MCLENNAN...LEON...
BRAZOS...ROBERTSON...AND MADISON. THIS INCLUDES WACO AND
BRYAN/COLLEGE...
AT 6:25 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF VERY
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM DALLAS...TO 10 MILES EAST OF CORSICANA...
TO SOUTHEAST OF CROCKETT. THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST AT 30 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO LEON AND PORTIONS OF MADISON...
LIMESTONE...AND HILL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS.
PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED FOR QUICK ACTION SHOULD
SEVERE WEATHER BE SPOTTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.Special weather statement, Jun 17, 9:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 910 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1987 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN TEXAS WHICH INCLUDES THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 910 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MCLENNAN AND LIMESTONE COUNTY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN WACO AND GROESBECK. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE PAST HOUR...THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY OVER CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS. HOWEVER...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTHWEST OF AN ABILENE TO WICHITA FALLS LINE WERE DRIFTING EASTWARD AND WILL AFFECT THE NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 10:02 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 955 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1987 AT 955 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND FREQUENT VIVID LIGHTNING HAD MOVED INTO BELL...FALLS...AND NORTHERN ROBERTSON COUNTIES. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TEMPLE TO 10 MILES WEST OF LOTT TO BREMOND. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. 03
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 64 min |
| Jun 17, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer | 57 min |
| Jun 18, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 43 min |
| Jun 18, 8:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 50 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.