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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 321, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 12, 1993Erath County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 00:00Z on 1993-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1658 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 00:00Z on 1993-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 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
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

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The text

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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.
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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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 12, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor51 min
Oct 12, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Erath64 min
Oct 12, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung70 min
Oct 12, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDStephens69 min
Oct 12, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Erath, Palo Pinto59 min
Oct 12, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Young61 min
Oct 12, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise64 min
Oct 12, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman56 min
Oct 12, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche61 min
Oct 12, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland63 min
Oct 12, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton63 min
Oct 12, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan56 min
Oct 12, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton45 min
Oct 12, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton61 min
Oct 13, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell64 min
Oct 13, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell62 min
Oct 13, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell43 min
Oct 13, 6:25 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDFalls65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.