Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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
- Apr 13, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wise County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Boyd, TX | |
| Apr 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Rhome, 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 140221 TORFTW TXC497-140245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 920 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WISE COUNTY AT 917 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR KEETER IN SOUTHERN WISE COUNTY OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF RHOME. BOYD...AURORA AND RHOME ARE IN THE PATH. TAKE COVER NOW!!!! 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 LOWEST 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 13, 4:34 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ094>097-105>112-122>126-135>138-150-151-140530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 435 PM CDT SAT APR 13 1996 ...LATE NIGHT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT POSSIBLE FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING LATE TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF NORTH TEXAS...NORTH AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO ATHENS TO CARTAGE LINE. THE RISK AREA INCLUDES PARIS... SULPHUR SPRINGS...QUITMAN...TYLER...LONGVIEW...AND MARSHALL. A DEEPENING SURFACE LOW IN SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO WILL TRACK EAST OVERNIGHT AND INTO EASTERN OKLAHOMA BY NOON SUNDAY. AS THE SYSTEM PUSHES EASTWARD...A SURFACE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE RISK AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT AND BECOME THE FOCUSING BOUNDARY FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. A LOW LEVEL JET DEVELOPING OVER CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS TONIGHT WILL AID IN THE TRANSPORT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE RISK AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT. FORECAST WINDS ALOFT INDICATE THERE WILL BE SIGNIFICANT DIRECTIONAL AND SPEED SHEER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUPERCELL STORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL MOVE EASTWARD WITH THE FRONT AND ENCOMPASS MOST OF THE EXTREME EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS BY NOON SUNDAY. SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR BETWEEN 3 AM AND SUNRISE...LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTERS SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR AN UPDATED SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK BY 10 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 60 min |
| Apr 13, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| Apr 13, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Grayson | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton | 32 min |
| Apr 13, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 31 min |
| Apr 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 43 min |
| Apr 13, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 69 min |
| Apr 13, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 67 min |
| Apr 13, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 64 min |
| Apr 13, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 40 min |
| Apr 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 45 min |
| Apr 13, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins | 64 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.