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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 2, 1988Comanche County, Erath County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1988, 4:22 PM CDT for Comanche County, Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1988, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1988, 5:05 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Comanche County, TX, Erath 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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 12:00Z on 1988-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2270 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 12:00Z on 1988-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 192 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2270 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
9.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill61 min
Jun 2, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill67 min
Jun 2, 7:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan69 min
Jun 2, 8:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan63 min
Jun 2, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Falls58 min
Jun 2, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young60 min
Jun 2, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack60 min
Jun 2, 1:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto68 min
Jun 2, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland43 min
Jun 2, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack60 min
Jun 2, 3:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack, Young4 hr
Jun 2, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones55 min
Jun 2, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBaylor69 min
Jun 2, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher63 min
Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStonewall54 min
Jun 2, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell56 min
Jun 2, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche56 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown59 min
Jun 2, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung60 min
Jun 2, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River57 min
Jun 2, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford57 min
Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Jones, Taylor62 min
Jun 2, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCallahan, Taylor57 min
Jun 2, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman55 min
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell67 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.