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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Fort Worth, TX

April 22, 1996Taylor County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1996, 2:48 AM CDT for Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 6 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 22, 1996, 2:48 AM CDT (07:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1996, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:50 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
Apr 22, 3:02 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Abilene, TX
Apr 22, 3:05 AM CDT	Hail 1	Abilene Muni Arpt, TX
Apr 22, 3:05 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	(Dys)Dyess Afb Abile, TX
Apr 22, 3:30 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Abilene, TX
Apr 22, 3:30 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Abilene, TX
Apr 22, 3:35 AM CDT	Hail 1.75	Abilene, 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 5021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABI 220750
TORABI
TXC441-220845-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
248 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 247 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 13 MILES WEST
OF ABILENE.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND PERSONS IN NORTH AND
WEST ABILENE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW!!
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.D
 
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS AND SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.

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

Local storm report, Apr 22, 12:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1205 AM CDT MON APR 22 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 PM    BOWIE                     TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0750 PM    3 W OLNEY                 TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   YOUNG

0825 PM    SUNSET                    TX   2.5 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0838 PM    1 E BOWIE                 TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0840 PM    BOWIE                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0840 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   COOKE

0900 PM    5 S MONTAGUE              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE                       HAIL TO GOLFBALL SIZE 4
                                          INCHES DEEP

0920 PM    2 S GAINESVILLE           TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   COOKE

0935 PM    WHITESBORO                TX   4 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

0940 PM    GORDONVILLE               TX   .88 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

0945 PM    2 E MONTAGUE              TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

0953 PM    ST JO                     TX   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   MONTAGUE

1007 PM    4 W DENISON               TX   TORNADO
04/21/96   GRAYSON

1010 PM    MUENSTER                  TX   1 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   COOKE

1013 PM    POTTSBORO                 TX   4.5 INCH HAIL
04/21/96   GRAYSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Throckmorton, Young	51 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	58 min
Apr 21, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	68 min
Apr 21, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	42 min
Apr 21, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	63 min
Apr 21, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	56 min
Apr 21, 9:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	67 min
Apr 21, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	66 min
Apr 21, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	57 min
Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	57 min
Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Grayson	57 min
Apr 21, 11:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	56 min
Apr 21, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	59 min
Apr 22, 12:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Apr 22, 12:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	64 min
Apr 22, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Mitchell	63 min
Apr 22, 1:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mitchell	63 min
Apr 22, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Nolan	57 min
Apr 22, 2:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	59 min
Apr 22, 2:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jones	59 min
Apr 22, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Haskell	57 min
Apr 22, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Taylor	66 min
Apr 22, 3:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan, Shackelford	69 min
Apr 22, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Stephens, Throckmorton, Young	56 min
Apr 22, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Young	63 min
Apr 22, 5:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	55 min
Apr 22, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson, Tarrant	55 min
Apr 22, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	55 min
Apr 22, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	69 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.