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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 12, 1993Brown County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 1993, 5:22 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 12, 1993, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Oct 12, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-10-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 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 1993-10-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 180 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KABI 122224 RRA
SVRABI
TXC049-122315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
522 PM CDT TUE OCT 12 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...BROWN COUNTY
 
AT 518 PM GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN BROWNWOOD. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WAS ALSO REPORTED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY OF BROWNWOOD.
 
A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM FOR ALL OF THE BIG COUNTRY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.
 
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
 
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown52 min
Oct 12, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens60 min
Oct 12, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Stephens61 min
Oct 12, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath58 min

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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.