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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 1991Fisher County, Stonewall County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1991, 11:16 PM CDT for Fisher County, Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1991, 11:16 PM CDT (04:16 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1991, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fisher County, TX, Stonewall County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1991-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABI 130416
SVRABI
TXC151-433-130515-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE 
1116 PM CDT SUN MAY 12 1991

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE WEST PART OF TEXAS
      FISHER...STONEWALL

AT 1115 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN FISHER
AND STONEWALL COUNTIES. ONE STORM WAS NEAR ROBY IN FISHER COUNTY...
THE OTHER WAS SOUTH OF ASPERMONT IN STONEWALL COUNTY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM MOVE TO A STRONG
BUILDING AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL.+..DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDScurry59 min
May 12, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Scurry60 min
May 12, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell, Scurry62 min
May 12, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan63 min
May 12, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.