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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 28, 1996Coleman County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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: May 28, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Coleman County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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
May 28, 6:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Novice, TX
May 28, 6:23 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Coleman, TX
May 28, 6:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Shields, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 2948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 28, 12:35 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Johnson	63 min
May 28, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	68 min
May 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Johnson	115 min
May 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	55 min
May 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	64 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	62 min
May 28, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Somervell	56 min
May 28, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Callahan	66 min
May 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	61 min
May 28, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hill	58 min
May 28, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	34 min
May 28, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque	44 min
May 28, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	68 min
May 28, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	38 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.