Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 1996, 5:12 PM CST for Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 5, 1996, 5:12 PM CST (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1996, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hopkins County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Dike, TX | |
| Mar 5, 5:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Dike, TX |
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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 052312 SVRFTW TXC223-060015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 512 PM CST TUE MAR 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST TEXAS ...HOPKINS COUNTY AT 510 PM CST WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SULPHUR SPRINGS. 1.25 INCH HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN ABLERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Mar 5, 11:15 AM CST, 5 hours 57 minutes before
TXZ091>097-102>112-117>126-130>138-143>153-156>167-174-175-052200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1115 AM CST TUE MAR 5 1996 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF NORTH TEXAS. THE RISK AREA IS GENERALLY ALONG...NORTH AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO KAUFMAN TO ATHENS TO CARTHAGE LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...TYLER... LONGVIEW...CANTON...MOUNT PLEASANT AND TERRELL. GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO PULL MOISTURE NORTHWARD ACROSS EAST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...KEEPING SKIES MOSTLY CLOUDY. TO THE WEST...THE DRYLINE...WHICH EXTENDED FROM MONTAGUE TO MINERAL WELLS TO GOLDTHWAITE AT 1100 AM...WAS BEING PUSHED EASTWARD BY AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL LOW. WITH MORE SUN IN THE WEST...DRY GUSTY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS AND UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES...THIS DRYLINE WILL BECOME THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE NEAR OR EAST OF A SHERMAN TO DALLAS TO WACO LINE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE STRONGER STORMS ALONG THE NORTHERN PART OF THE LINE. THIS LINE WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WHERE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS GREATEST. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD STAY INFORMED OF THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. ACTIVATION MAY BECOME NECESSARY BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGHOUT THE EVENING HOURS. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 4:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.