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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1988Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1988, 6:27 AM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 18 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1988, 6:27 AM CDT (11:27 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1988, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
18 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, 11.5 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 1988-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 996 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1988-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
996 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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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, May 8, 6:03 AM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
600 AM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CDT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL
   ...HILL...FALLS...LIMESTONE AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS...

AT 555 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
FROM NORTH OF FORT WORTH TO NEAR BROWNWOOD.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN RESPONSE TO A COLD FRONT MOVING EAST...WITH
STORMS ENTERING BOSQUE WITHIN A HALF HOUR.

STAY ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER THIS MORNING. PLAN WHERE TO TAKE
COVER EARLY BEFORE THE STORMS GET NEAR.

05

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung15 min
May 8, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack45 min
May 8, 4:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise55 min
May 8, 6:36 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill39 min
May 8, 7:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Dallas, Rockwall50 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.