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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 30, 1996Comanche County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 8:13 PM CDT for Comanche County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: May 30, 1996, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Comanche County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Beattie, TX
May 30, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Beattie, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 638 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KFTW 310114
TORFTW
TXC093-310215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
813 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...COMANCHE COUNTY
 
AT 812 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
NEAR BEATTIE...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
APPROACH THE CITY OF COMANCHE BY 840 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOVM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Eastland	2 hr
May 30, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	2 hr
May 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Erath	64 min
May 30, 7:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto	2 hr
May 30, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hamilton	62 min
May 30, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, McLennan	55 min
May 30, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	68 min
May 30, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell	48 min
May 30, 11:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, McLennan	3 hr
May 31, 12:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Coleman	66 min
May 31, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coleman	66 min
May 31, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Brown	63 min
May 31, 12:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Callahan	6 hr
May 31, 1:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Brown, Coleman	3 hr

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.