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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Fort Worth, TX

September 19, 1996Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 19, 1996, 10:12 PM CDT for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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
Sep 19, 1996, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 19, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Bell County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 1996-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 670 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 1996-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
165 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell53 min
Sep 19, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell57 min
Sep 19, 9:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell, Coryell38 min
Sep 19, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan66 min
Sep 19, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell32 min
Sep 19, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFalls, McLennan47 min
Sep 19, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFalls43 min
Sep 19, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam63 min
Sep 20, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro53 min
Sep 20, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDVan Zandt63 min
Sep 20, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto62 min
Sep 20, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath55 min
Sep 20, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar49 min
Sep 20, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath59 min
Sep 20, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Falls, Hill, McLennan68 min
Sep 20, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas37 min
Sep 20, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson41 min
Sep 20, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin61 min
Sep 20, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton68 min
Sep 20, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill, McLennan60 min
Sep 20, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFannin, Lamar40 min
Sep 20, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar36 min
Sep 20, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar34 min
Sep 20, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, Hamilton62 min
Sep 20, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMilam56 min
Sep 20, 6:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBosque66 min
Sep 20, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque66 min
Sep 20, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas55 min
Sep 20, 6:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCoryell2 hr
Sep 20, 6:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMilam2 hr

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.