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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1989, 11:16 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 1989, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1989, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Foard, Hardeman | 62 min |
| May 4, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Baylor, Wilbarger | 69 min |
| May 4, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Knox | 69 min |
| May 4, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell, Stonewall | 63 min |
| May 4, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Throckmorton | 63 min |
| May 4, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Archer | 69 min |
| May 4, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Haskell | 59 min |
| May 4, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 57 min |
| May 4, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 69 min |
| May 4, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stonewall | 63 min |
| May 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones, Shackelford | 60 min |
| May 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wichita | 69 min |
| May 4, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 63 min |
| May 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Clay | 59 min |
| May 4, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 57 min |
| May 4, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 64 min |
| May 4, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| May 4, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 55 min |
| May 4, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 66 min |
| May 4, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 68 min |
| May 4, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Somervell | 67 min |
| May 4, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 64 min |
| May 4, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood | 62 min |
| May 4, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 55 min |
| May 4, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 59 min |
| May 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Montague | 58 min |
| May 4, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 58 min |
| May 4, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Johnson | 65 min |
| May 4, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 61 min |
| May 4, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 67 min |
| May 4, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 67 min |
| May 4, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 61 min |
| May 4, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 69 min |
| May 4, 11:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 36 min |
| May 4, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone | 58 min |
| May 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Navarro | 57 min |
| May 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 55 min |
| May 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 60 min |
| May 4, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 60 min |
| May 5, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 57 min |
| May 5, 12:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 69 min |
| May 5, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 59 min |
| May 5, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Smith, Van Zandt, Wood | 62 min |
| May 5, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cherokee | 62 min |
| May 5, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 4 hr |
| May 5, 12:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 5, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Franklin, Titus | 67 min |
| May 5, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 59 min |
| May 5, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brazos, Madison | 59 min |
| May 5, 1:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith, Upshur | 67 min |
| May 5, 1:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Smith | 3 hr |
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.