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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Fort Worth, TX

November 19, 1991Cherokee County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Nov 19, 1991, 12:22 PM CST for Cherokee County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report 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: Nov 19, 1991, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 1991, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 19, 1:16 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Cherokee, 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

Longview/Gregg, TX (KGGG), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 78 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

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, Nov 19, 9:47 AM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 19, 9:48 AM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 19, 10:26 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 19, 10:41 AM CST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1040 AM CST TUE NOV 19 1991

AT 1032 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NUMEROUS ALONG A LINE FROM
TEAGUE TO CALDWELL. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SCATTERED FROM NEAR ITASCA TO STILLHOUSETHUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SCATTERED FROM WEST OF FAIRFIELD TO
HOLLOW LAKE. AN ISOLATED HEAVY SHOWE R WAS JUST NORTH OF BELLMEAD.

MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
WARNING BULLETINS.

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Special weather statement, Nov 19, 10:43 AM CST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

TXZ031-032-037-191730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1040 AM CST TUE NOV 19 1991

AT 1032 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NUMEROUS ALONG A LINE FROM
TEAGUE TO CALDWELL. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SCATTERED FROM NEAR ITASCA TO STILLHOUSEHOLLOW LAKE. AN ISOLATED HEAVY SHOWER WAS JUST NORTH OF BELLMEAD.

MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE
WARNING BULLETINS.

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Special weather statement, Nov 19, 11:47 AM CST, 35 minutes before

TXZ031-032-037-191830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
1144 AM CST TUE NOV 19 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BELL...FALLS...LIMESTONE...BRAZOS
...LEON...ROBERTSON...AND MADISON COUNTIES UNTIL 6PM CST...

AT 1141 AM CST THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING FROM NEAR WEST TO
JUST WEST OF MARLIN.

THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST OF FAIRFIELD TOOVER SOUTHERN LIMESTOJNE COUNTY.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR ROGERS...ROSEBUD...MARQUEZ
AND WEST OF OAKWOOD.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION 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
Nov 19, 10:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	64 min
Nov 19, 10:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	69 min
Nov 19, 11:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Smith, Wood	40 min
Nov 19, 11:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Cherokee	56 min
Nov 19, 11:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Upshur	52 min
Nov 19, 11:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Camp	60 min
Nov 19, 11:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Smith	67 min
Nov 19, 11:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Smith	61 min
Nov 19, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Morris	60 min
Nov 19, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Cherokee, Smith	61 min
Nov 19, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Upshur	49 min
Nov 19, 1:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Cherokee, Smith	4 hr
Nov 19, 1:42 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson	4 hr
Nov 19, 1:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Madison	43 min
Nov 19, 2:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cherokee	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.