Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1996, 8:16 PM CDT for Lamar County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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 19, 1996, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lamar County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 8:23 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Paris, TX | |
| Apr 19, 8:25 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Blossom, 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 3459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rains | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 56 min |
| Apr 19, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 61 min |
| Apr 19, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| Apr 19, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, McLennan | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 66 min |
| Apr 19, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone | 69 min |
| Apr 19, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 48 min |
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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.