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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1996, 9:52 PM CDT for Throckmorton County, Texas. It was in force for 68 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
- Jun 3, 1996, 9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Throckmorton County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 10:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Woodson, 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KFTW 040255 TORFTW TXC447-040400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 952 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...THROCKMORTON COUNTY AT 951 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR MILLERS CREEK RESERVIOR...MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM ALSO CONTAINS LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY REACH THROCKMORTON BETWEEN 1015 AND 1030 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell, Throckmorton | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Haskell | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jones | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fisher | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jones | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Nolan, Taylor | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 64 min |
| Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 10:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Shackelford | 43 min |
| Jun 3, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mitchell | 69 min |
| Jun 3, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 66 min |
| Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 66 min |
| Jun 3, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton, Johnson | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Brown | 117 min |
| Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 117 min |
| Jun 4, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Brown | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Mills | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hamilton | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 59 min |
| Jun 4, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Lampasas | 68 min |
| Jun 4, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 45 min |
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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.