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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 1987, 5:30 PM CST for Cooke County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Nov 24, 1987, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 1987, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cooke 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Cooke, TX | |
| Nov 24, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Cooke, 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
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 654 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFTW 242330
TORFTW
TXC097-250030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
530 PM CST TUE NOV 24 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
...COOKE
AT 530 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO SOUTHEAST OF VALLEYVIEW IN
SOUTHERN COOKE COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE
IN VALLEYVIEW SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
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, Nov 24, 4:43 PM CST, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 440 PM CST TUE NOV 24 1987 ...HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER MOST OF NORTH TEXAS TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. THE PRECIPITATION IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP AS A COLD FRONT LOCATED FROM WEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO NORTH OF MIDLAND MOVES SLOWLY SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTH TEXAS. IN ADDITION TO THE COLD FRONT...AN UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE OVER NORTHERN MEXICO IS FORECAST TO TRACK NORTHEASTWARD OVER NORTH TEXAS. THIS UPPER LEVEL IMPULSE SHOULD CAUSE THUNDERSTORMS TO INTENSIFY LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...POSSIBLE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG AND EAST OF THE FRONTAL ZONE IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST TEXAS. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVFICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS AND WEST FORT WORTH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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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.