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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1996Coryell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 12:38 AM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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 30, 1996, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Coryell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 30, 12:45 AM CDTThunderstorm WindTurnersville, 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 762 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
762 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 300538
TORFTW
TXC099-300615-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1238 AM CDT THU MAY 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CORYELL COUNTY
 
AT 1237 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO NEAR TURNERSVILLE. MOVMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE
EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan2 hr
May 29, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman2 hr
May 29, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTaylor56 min
May 29, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman64 min
May 29, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown66 min
May 29, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman39 min
May 29, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown34 min
May 29, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills55 min
May 29, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath44 min
May 30, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas66 min
May 30, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton61 min
May 30, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque59 min
May 30, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan60 min
May 30, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell69 min
May 30, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill64 min
May 30, 7:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar67 min
May 30, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell52 min
May 30, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDThrockmorton55 min
May 30, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones55 min
May 30, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones34 min
May 30, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford2 hr
May 30, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford49 min
May 30, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens, Throckmorton, Young58 min
May 30, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones2 hr
May 30, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford66 min
May 30, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens62 min
May 30, 5:44 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDYoung2 hr
May 30, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung2 hr
May 30, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
May 30, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan58 min
May 30, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland56 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman64 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto63 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.