Tornado Warning 33, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jun 3, 1996, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)

Expired

Jun 3, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT

In force

26 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Jones County, TX

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KABI 040251
TORABI
TXC253-040315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
949 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN JONES COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH
TOWARD THE COMMUNITY OF STAMFORD AND WILL AFFECT STAMFORD BY 10 PM.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE CONFIRMED TORNADO.
 
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.
 
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN YOUR CAR. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS AND SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU SEE A TORNADO...ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.