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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Fort Worth, TX

October 18, 1993Kaufman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 1993, 5:06 PM CDT for Kaufman County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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: Oct 18, 1993, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 1993, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Kaufman County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 18, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Terrell, TX	A brief touchdown was reported by a motorist. Fences were blown down in northern Terrell.

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 1973 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 182206
TORFTW
TXC257-182315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
506 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...KAUFMAN COUNTY
 
AT 505 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF
TERRELL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ALL PERSONS IN
TERRELL AND AREAS TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE CITY SHOULD TAKE
COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILAB@LE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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, Oct 18, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

TXZ144-145-157>161-182230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
357 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

AT 350 PM CDT A BAND OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
CONTINUED TO DEVELOP. THIS BAND WAS 20 TO 25 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED FROM
FREDERICKSBURG...TO THE FT HOOD AREA TO NORTH OF WACO TO JUST SOUTH OF
DALLAS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WERE IN CENTRAL CORYELL
COUNTY AND ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF WACO. RESIDENTS IN CORYELL AND
SOUTHERN HILL COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND
DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

ALTHOUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED...THIS AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND TRACK FROM SOUTHWEST TO
NORTHEAST AND PASSES OVER THE SAME AREA.<

MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT AT LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND KNOWN FLOOD PRONE
AREAS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

07

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 4:38 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

TXZ091>167-182300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
445 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...

AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED A LINE OF
DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS NORTH TEXAS FROM SOUTHEAST
OF DALLAS...TO NEAR CORSICANA...TO NEAR FORT HOOD.  THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTHEAST OF DALLAS BETWEEN LANCASTER AND
CRANDALL...AND JUST SOUTH OF FORT HOOD.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST TEXAS.   THE WATCH AREA EXTENDS FROM TEXARKANA...TO
CENTER...TO SAN ANTONIO...TO SAN SABA.  TYLER....LONGVIEW...
DALLAS...AND FORT WORTH ARE INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA.

TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING
THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS DEVELOPING
WEATHER SITUATION.

Local storm report, Oct 18, 4:39 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
445 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...ADDITIONAL NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR OCT. 17 AND OCT 18. 1993...

   TIME OF
  OCCURRENCE      COUNTY                     EVENT

 620 PM CDT     HAMILTON       DIME SIZE HAIL - OLIN

 725 PM CDT     ERATH          NICKEL HAIL - DUBLIN

 730 PM CDT     ERATH          DIME HAIL - MORGAN MILL

 920 PM CDT     GRAYSON        DIME SIZE HAIL - TIOGA

 940 PM CDT     STEPHENS       WINDS DOWNED POWER LINES - BRECKENRIDGE

 950 PM CDT     STEPHENS       TREES UPROOTED - CRYSTAL FALLS

1030 PM CDT     YOUNG          TREES UPROOTED - SOUTH BEND

1120 PM CDT     PARKER         TORNADO ON GROUND...SIGHTED BY SEVERAL
                               EYEWITNESSES...ALOS GRAPEFRUIT SIZE HAIL
                               - HORSESHOE BEND (EXTREME SOUTHERN PARKER
                               COUNTY)

...OCTOBER 18...

1215 AM CDT     TARRANT        QUARTER SIZE HAIL - MANSFIELD

1220 PM CDT     TARRANT        70 MPH WINDS...TREES UPROOTED AND BRICK
                               WALL TOPPLED OVER - SOUTH ARLINGTON

1230 AM CDT     DALLAS         MEASURED 78 MPH WINDS.  ROOF RIPPED OFF
-1240 AM                       OF MOBILE HOME - BALCH SPRINGS.  ALSO...
                               WINDS BLEW IN 14 HANGER DOORS AND DAMAGED
                               7 AIRPLANES - HUDSON AIRPORT (SE DALLAS
                               CO.)

 120 AM CDT     HUNT           60 MPH WINDS - WEST TAWAKONI

 125 AM CDT     ELLIS          NICKEL SIZE HAIL - RED OAK

 140 AM CDT     RAINS          TREE DAMAGE FROM 60 MPH WINDS -
                               CITY OF EAST TAWAKONI

 145 AM         HUNT           QUARTER SIZE HAIL - CAMPBELL

 145 AM CDT     VAN ZANDT      60 MPH WINDS - NW PORTION OF THE
                               COUNTY AT LAKE TAWAKONI

 205 AM CDT     COMANCHE       DIME SIZE HAIL - PROCTOR

 215 AM CDT     8ERATH          QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS...
                               TREES UPROOTED - DUBLIN

...WHEW!...

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 4:44 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

TXZ144-145-157>162-176-182300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
444 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES
   IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...FOR LEON IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...MILAM IN SOUTH
   CENTRAL TEXAS AND MADISON IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 433 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THIS AREA WAS 30 TO 40 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED
FROM 40 MILES WEST OF AUSTIN...TO WACO TO EAST OF DALLAS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WERE BETWEEN FT HOOD AND
MCGREGOR AND NEAR MT CALM. RESIDENTS IN NORTHEAST CORYELL...SOUTHERN
MCLENNAN AND SOUTHEAST HILL COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...
GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
<
ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED...RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO
KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER DEVELOP.

PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

07

Local storm report, Oct 18, 4:45 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
445 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...ADDITIONAL NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR OCT. 17 AND OCT 18. 1993...

   TIME OF
  OCCURRENCE      COUNTY                     EVENT

 620 PM CDT     HAMILTON       DIME SIZE HAIL - OLIN

 725 PM CDT     ERATH          NICKEL HAIL - DUBLIN

 730 PM CDT     ERATH          DIME HAIL - MORGAN MILL

 920 PM CDT     GRAYSON        DIME SIZE HAIL - TIOGA

 940 PM CDT     STEPHENS       WINDS DOWNED POWER LINES - BRECKENRIDGE

 950 PM CDT     STEPHENS       TREES UPROOTED - CRYSTAL FALLS

1030 PM CDT     YOUNG          TREES UPROOTED - SOUTH BEND

1120 PM CDT     PARKER         TORNADO ON GROUND...SIGHTED BY SEVERAL
                               EYEWITNESSES...ALOS GRAPEFRUIT SIZE HAIL
                               - HORSESHOE BEND (EXTREME SOUTHERN PARKER
                               COUNTY)

...OCTOBER 18...

1215 AM CDT     TARRANT        QUARTER SIZE HAIL - MANSFIELD

1220 PM CDT     TARRANT        70 MPH WINDS...TREES UPROOTED AND BRICK
                               WALL TOPPLED OVER - SOUTH ARLINGTON

1230 AM CDT     DALLAS         MEASURED 78 MPH WINDS.  ROOF RIPPED OFF
-1240 AM                       OF MOBILE HOME - BALCH SPRINGS.  ALSO...
                               WINDS BLEW IN 14 HANGER DOORS AND DAMAGED
                               7 AIRPLANES - HUDSON AIRPORT (SE DALLAS
                               CO.)

 120 AM CDT     HUNT           60 MPH WINDS - WEST TAWAKONI

 125 AM CDT     ELLIS          NICKEL SIZE HAIL - RED OAK

 140 AM CDT     RAINS          TREE DAMAGE FROM 60 MPH WINDS -
                               CITY OF EAST TAWAKONI

 145 AM         HUNT           QUARTER SIZE HAIL - CAMPBELL

 145 AM CDT     VAN ZANDT      60 MPH WINDS - NW PORTION OF THE
                               COUNTY AT LAKE TAWAKONI

 205 AM CDT     COMANCHE       DIME SIZE HAIL - PROCTOR

 215 AM CDT     ERATH          QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS...
                               TREES UPROOTED - DUBLIN

...WHEW!...

Special weather statement, Oct 18, 4:45 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

TXZ144-145-157>162-176-182300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX
444 PM CDT MON OCT 18 1993

...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MCLENNAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES
   IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS...FOR LEON IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...MILAM IN SOUTH
   CENTRAL TEXAS AND MADISON IN SOUTHEAST TEXAS...

AT 433 PM CDT WACO RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THIS AREA WAS 30 TO 40 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDED
FROM 40 MILES WEST OF AUSTIN...TO WACO TO EAST OF DALLAS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIER RAINFALL WERE BETWEEN FT HOOD AND
MCGREGOR AND NEAR MT CALM. RESIDENTS IN NORTHEAST CORYELL...SOUTHERN
MCLENNAN AND SOUTHEAST HILL COUNTIES SHOULD EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...
GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
<
ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED...RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO
KEEP ABREAST OF TtHE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION...SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER DEVELOP.

PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

07

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 17, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath, Hamilton	57 min
Oct 17, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	67 min
Oct 17, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	45 min
Oct 17, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	40 min
Oct 17, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	58 min
Oct 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, McLennan	45 min
Oct 17, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	58 min
Oct 17, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	69 min
Oct 17, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hill, Limestone	43 min
Oct 17, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens	68 min
Oct 17, 9:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Stephens	61 min
Oct 17, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Young	63 min
Oct 17, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	55 min
Oct 17, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Parker	66 min
Oct 17, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant	56 min
Oct 17, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	65 min
Oct 17, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	61 min
Oct 17, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Erath	66 min
Oct 17, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	66 min
Oct 17, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Ellis, Tarrant	60 min
Oct 17, 11:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Johnson	57 min
Oct 18, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	61 min
Oct 18, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	41 min
Oct 18, 12:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis	55 min
Oct 18, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	66 min
Oct 18, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	62 min
Oct 18, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rains, Van Zandt	62 min
Oct 18, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	69 min
Oct 18, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	60 min
Oct 18, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	56 min
Oct 18, 2:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Erath	57 min
Oct 18, 2:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	36 min
Oct 18, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	67 min
Oct 18, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche	67 min
Oct 18, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	60 min
Oct 18, 3:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	40 min
Oct 18, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	40 min
Oct 18, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Navarro	49 min
Oct 18, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	57 min
Oct 18, 8:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	63 min
Oct 18, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	55 min
Oct 18, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hunt	58 min
Oct 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	30 min
Oct 18, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	58 min
Oct 18, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Rains	63 min
Oct 18, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	59 min
Oct 18, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Wood	64 min
Oct 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	65 min
Oct 18, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	55 min
Oct 18, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Franklin	61 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.