Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1993, 6:51 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 17, 1993, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bosque County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KACT 172351 TORACT TXC035-180100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WACO TX 651 PM CDT SAT APR 17 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WACO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BOSQUE COUNTY AT 650 PM CDT A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 3 MILES EAST OF CLIFTON. THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWpEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, Apr 17, 5:53 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXC143-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 553 PM CDT SAT APR 17 1993 AT 550 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF STEPHENVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN INTENSIFYING DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES AND MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL BRING THE STORM THROUGH STEPHENVILLE DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES AND TO NEAR HICO AROUND 630 PM.
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 5:55 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
TXC143-180000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 553 PM CDT SAT APR 17 1993 AT 550 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF STEPHENVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN INTENSIFYING DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES AND MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL BRING THE STORM THROUGH STEPHENVILLE DURING THE NEXT 15 MINUTES AND TO NEAR HICO AROUND 630 PM.
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 6:10 PM CDT, 41 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-172345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 610 PM CDT SAT APR 17 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOMERVELL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BOUNDED GENERALLY BY LAKE WHITNEY...STEPHENVILLE...COMANCHE...AND HAMILTON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. AT 608 PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED THREE (3) MILES EAST OF STEPHENVILLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 6:11 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
TXZ025-026-031-172345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FT WORTH TX 610 PM CDT SAT APR 17 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOMERVELL COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS BOUNDED GENERALLY BY LAKE WHITNEY...STEPHENVILLE...COMANCHE...AND HAMILTON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. AT 608 PM CDT...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED THREE (3) MILES EAST OF STEPHENVILLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD PREPARE FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THIS STATION FOR LATER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 35 min |
| Apr 17, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 30 min |
| Apr 17, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hamilton | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.