Tornado Warning 45, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Sep 19, 1996, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)

Expired

Sep 19, 1996, 11:30 PM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Falls County, TX

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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.

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TTAA00 KFTW 200349
TORFTW
TXC145-200430-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1047 PM CDT THU SEP 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...FALLS COUNTY
 
AT 1047 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT A TORNADO JUST WEST OF LOT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5
MPH.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.  DO NOT DRIVE
INTO WATER CROSSING ROADWAYS.

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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.