Tornado Warning 46, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Sep 20, 1996, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)

Expired

Sep 20, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT

In force

40 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

Counties Fannin County, TX, Lamar County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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 202222
TORFTW
TXC147-277-202300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
520 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN FANNIN COUNTY
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN LAMAR COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM...A TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWNS OF TELEPHONE AND
MONKSTOWN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF SjTURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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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.