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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 1, 1988, 8:41 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 19 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 1988, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 1988, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bell 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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, Oct 1, 3:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA FALLS TX 305 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 1988 AT 305 PM CDT...WICHITA FALLS RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM JUST NORTH OF OKLAHOMA CITY THROUGH DUNCAN OK...SOUTHWEST TO ARCHER CITY TEXAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER LAKE ARROWHEAD WHICH IS JUST SOUTH OF WICHITA FALLS. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BOATERS ON LAKE ARROWHEAD SHOULD SEEK SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 4:11 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 410 PM CDT SAT OCT 01 1988 AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED TWO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTHWEST OF DECATUR ON THE WISE-JACK COUNTY LINE. THE SECOND THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF MONTAGUE ON THE RED RIVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITIES OF DECATUR AND GAINESVILLE WILL BE UNDER OR NEARLY UNDER THESE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS BY 445 PM CDT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 4:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 429 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 428 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING FROM DALLAS TO COLEMAN. NO RAIN WAS NOTED IN ANY OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES. HOWEVER... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO HILL AND BOSQUE COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT! HOUR OR SO. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN RESPONSE TO A WIND SHIFT LINE MOVING THROUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
Special weather statement, Oct 1, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 531 PM CDT SAT OCT 1 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOSQUE...HILL...CORYELL...MCLENNAN AND LIMESTONE COUNTIES UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 529 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ALONG A LINE FROM CLEBURNE TO WEST OF HICO. RAIN WAS NOTED IN NORTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY AND ALSO BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN HILL COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLY SOME LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO BOSQUE DURING THE NEXT FEW MINUTES ESPECIALLY THE EXTREME NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN RESPONSE TO A WIND SHIFT LINwE MOVING THROUGH NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 32 min |
| Oct 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 55 min |
| Oct 1, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 31 min |
| Oct 1, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 28 min |
| Oct 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 30 min |
| Oct 1, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 56 min |
| Oct 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| Oct 1, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| Oct 1, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Robertson | 38 min |
| Oct 1, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 24 min |
| Oct 1, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee | 64 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.