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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1996Shackelford County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 3:41 PM CDT for Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1996, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Shackelford County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 324 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABI 302044
TORABI
TXC417-302130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
341 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...SHACKELFORD COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THE POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO IN NORTHWESTERN
SHACKELFORD COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE CITY OF
ALBANY SHOULD PREPARE SHOULD THIS STORM TURN MORE SOUTHEAST.
 
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.
 
 
 
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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 30, 11:27 AM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ091>167-174-175-310000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1130 AM CDT THU MAY 30 1996

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
EARLY TONIGHT OVER ALL OF NORTH TEXAS.

A WARM FRONT NEAR A NACOGDOCHES TO HILLSBORO TO ABILENE LINE AT
MIDDAY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD TODAY AND TONIGHT AS
LOW PRESSURE INTENSIFIES OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. WARM...MOIST...
UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE DRAWN UP AND OVER THE FRONT AND THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER MUCH OF NORTH TEXAS BY EARLY TONIGHT.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO AFFECT THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH
TEXAS BY EARLY AFTERNOON AS A DEVELOPING COMPLEX OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVES EASTWARD OUT OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.

DUE TO STRONG INSTABILITY OVER THE REGION...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL
HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS.
UPPER LEVEL WIND FIELDS WILL STRENGTHEN THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF A
BONHAM TO DALLAS TO GOLDTHWAITE LINE WITH THE BEST LOW LEVEL WIND
SHEAR EXPECTED IN THIS AREA. SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOST LIKELY
IN THIS AREA WITH A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE.

IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE
THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF RAIN.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN NORTH
TEXAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

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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, 12:38 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell37 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.