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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 8, 1993Foard County, Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1993, 2:26 PM CDT for Foard County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1993, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1993, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Foard County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1606 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, Norman, OK at 12:00Z on 1993-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 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
1606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
601 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
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, May 8, 12:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan59 min
May 7, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Stephens64 min
May 7, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto64 min
May 8, 2:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFoard, Knox53 min
May 8, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBaylor43 min
May 8, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWilbarger49 min
May 8, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBaylor34 min
May 8, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher52 min
May 8, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDClay33 min
May 8, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton62 min
May 8, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Wichita47 min
May 8, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Baylor53 min
May 8, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Clay, Jack, Wichita53 min
May 8, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise42 min
May 8, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague62 min
May 8, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher46 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Wise39 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDArcher, Clay49 min
May 8, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBaylor49 min
May 8, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague43 min
May 8, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDClay34 min
May 8, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton66 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1993Every tornado warning in 1993Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.