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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 12, 1993, 10:09 PM CDT for Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 12, 1993, 10:09 PM CDT (03:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 1993, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erath County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 1658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 severe thunderstorm 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, Oct 12, 5:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
TXZ144-145-157>161-175-176-196-130015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 559 PM CDT TUE OCT 12 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BELL...BOSQUE...CORYELL... FALLS...AND MCLENNAN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...SVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR AUSTIN...BRAZOS...BURLESON ...MILAM...ROBERTSON AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR ROBERTSON...BRAZOS AND MADISON COUNTIES... AT 552 PM CDT AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF BELL COUNTY...NEAR BARTLETT AND EXTENDED EAST TO CAMERON. THIS AREA BECAME MORE CONCENTRATED AS IT SPREAD SOUTH INTO THE GIDDINGS AREA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH. < ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN BRECKENRIDGE AND MINERAL WELLS...BETWEEN LAKE BROWNWOOD AND COMANCHE AND BETWEEN SAN ANGELO AND SAN SABA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS IN OR NEAR THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA... RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ABREAST OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. 07
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Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Taylor | 51 min |
| Oct 12, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 64 min |
| Oct 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 70 min |
| Oct 12, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 69 min |
| Oct 12, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath, Palo Pinto | 59 min |
| Oct 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 61 min |
| Oct 12, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 64 min |
| Oct 12, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 56 min |
| Oct 12, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 61 min |
| Oct 12, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 63 min |
| Oct 12, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 63 min |
| Oct 12, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 56 min |
| Oct 12, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Oct 12, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 64 min |
| Oct 13, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 2:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 43 min |
| Oct 13, 6:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 65 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.