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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1996Throckmorton County, Texas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 3, 10:40 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Woodson, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1386 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 1996-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHaskell, Throckmorton68 min
Jun 3, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHaskell46 min
Jun 3, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung56 min
Jun 3, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJones26 min
Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDShackelford69 min
Jun 3, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFisher69 min
Jun 3, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJones63 min
Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNolan, Taylor69 min
Jun 3, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan69 min
Jun 3, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung64 min
Jun 3, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens61 min
Jun 3, 10:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDShackelford43 min
Jun 3, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland60 min
Jun 3, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMitchell69 min
Jun 3, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 min
Jun 3, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens30 min
Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker66 min
Jun 3, 11:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Erath66 min
Jun 3, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Somervell60 min
Jun 3, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland33 min
Jun 4, 12:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton, Johnson58 min
Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBrown117 min
Jun 4, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown117 min
Jun 4, 12:45 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDBrown30 min
Jun 4, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche38 min
Jun 4, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills61 min
Jun 4, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hamilton34 min
Jun 4, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Lampasas59 min
Jun 4, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton39 min
Jun 4, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell, Lampasas68 min
Jun 4, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell49 min
Jun 4, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls47 min
Jun 4, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam45 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.