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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX

June 3, 1996Shackelford County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1996, 10:32 PM CDT for Shackelford County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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
Jun 3, 1996, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
43 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 03:34 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 00:00Z, 3.5 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 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 KABI 040333
TORABI
TXC417-040415-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ABILENE TX
1032 PM CDT MON JUN 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ABILENE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN SHACKELFORD COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHWESTERN SHACKELFORD COUNTY
NORTH OF LUDERS...THIS STORM WILL MOVE .EASTSOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH BETWEEN
ALBANY AND FORT GRIFFIN.
 
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.

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, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDThrockmorton68 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, 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

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.