Tornado Warning 38, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Jun 6, 1996, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)

Expired

Jun 6, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Cooke County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 KFTW 070157
TORFTW
TXC097-070245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
856 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...COOKE COUNTY
 
AT 856 PM CDT...DOPPLER DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST NORTH OF
SAINT JO IN MONTAGUE COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. MUENSTER IS IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM. IN ADDITION THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
BASEBALL SIZE OR LARGER HAIL.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILAbBLE.  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.

In the hours before

TXZ091>095-098>107-113>123-127>135-139>148-154>162-174-175-070100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
325 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT FOR THAT
PORTION OF NORTHERN TEXAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM PARIS TO WAXAHACHIE TO
GRANBURY TO GRAHAM. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SHERMAN...PARIS...
DENTON...MINERAL WELLS...AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THERE
IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF
NORTHERN TEXAS.

AT MID AFTERNOON...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM WICHITA, KANSAS THROUGH
NORTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA AND INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SOUTH OF AMARILLO.
AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNING THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM TULSA
TO SOUTH OF GAGE, OKLAHOMA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY
DEVELOPED IN OKLAHOMA ALONG THE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WITH A TORNADO WATCH
IN EFFECT AS FAR SOUTH AS THE RED RIVER.

THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL SHIFT SOUTHWARD DURING THE EVENING
AND WILL LIKELY BEGIN AFFECTING NORTHERN TEXAS SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET.
BY THIS TIME...A LOW LEVEL JET IS EXPECTED TO BE IN PLACE OVER THE
AREA AND THIS WILL ACT TO ENHANCE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG THE
APPROACHING BOUNDARIES AS WELL AS TO INCREASE LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR.
THUS...NUMEROUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND STRONG
DOWNBURST WINDS COULD DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA.
SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED TORNADO THREAT IS ALSO
MOST LIKELY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD PREPARE FOR
POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATE THIS EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF
NORTHERN TEXAS AND LATER TONIGHT ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA. LISTEN
FOR LATER INFORMATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCERNING
THIS SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

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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.