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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 28, 1991Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1991, 2:05 PM CDT for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1991, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1991, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 28, 2:10 PM CDTTornado F0Ellis, TX
Apr 28, 2:15 PM CDTHail 2.75Ellis, TX
Apr 28, 2:15 PM CDTHail 2.75Dallas, TX
Apr 28, 2:25 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Dallas, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 1991-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 822 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 1991-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
822 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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
Apr 27, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson60 min
Apr 27, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt65 min
Apr 27, 10:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDSmith39 min
Apr 27, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon, Madison68 min
Apr 27, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCherokee34 min
Apr 27, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins, Rains, Wood57 min
Apr 27, 11:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCherokee, Smith46 min
Apr 27, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDUpshur59 min
Apr 27, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar55 min
Apr 27, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins49 min
Apr 28, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson57 min
Apr 28, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRed River67 min
Apr 28, 11:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton61 min
Apr 28, 11:47 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDHamilton58 min
Apr 28, 11:56 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDBosque49 min
Apr 28, 12:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant68 min
Apr 28, 12:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas62 min
Apr 28, 12:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell62 min
Apr 28, 12:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton68 min
Apr 28, 12:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant53 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell63 min
Apr 28, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin60 min
Apr 28, 1:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque, Coryell3 hr
Apr 28, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis62 min
Apr 28, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Cherokee55 min
Apr 28, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon, Robertson66 min
Apr 28, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrazos67 min
Apr 28, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell63 min
Apr 28, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith, Upshur59 min
Apr 28, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCherokee35 min
Apr 28, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMadison44 min
Apr 28, 4:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDAnderson, Cherokee3 hr
Apr 28, 5:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDRed River3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.