Tornado Warning 48, NWS Fort Worth, TX

Issued

Sep 20, 1996, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)

Expired

Sep 20, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT

In force

34 min

Issued by

NWS Fort Worth, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Lamar County, TX

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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 202313
TORFTW
TXC277-202345-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
611 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
 
   ...LAMAR COUNTY
 
AT 611 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER
PARIS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BETWEEN 6 AND 610 PM...SPOTTERS
REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD NEAR PARIS...TYPICALLY THE SIGNATURE
THAT A TORNADO IS ABOUT TO DEVELOP.
 
HOWEVER...THE STORM CONTINUES TO PRODUCE HAIL BETWEEN GOLF BALL AND HALF
DOLLAR SIZE.
 
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!!!
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
 
 
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In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
515 PM CDT FRI SEP 20 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0325 PM    8 S PALO PINTO            TX   1 INCH HAIL
09/20/96   PALO PINTO

0345 PM    CHICOTA                   TX   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/96   LAMAR

0345 PM    CHICOTA                   TX   WIND DAMAGE
09/20/96   LAMAR                          TREES DOWNED

0350 PM    6 NE GORDON               TX   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/96   PALO PINTO

0410 PM    HUCKABAY                  TX   .88 INCH HAIL
09/20/96   ERATH

0435 PM    12 E MERIDIAN             TX   .75 INCH HAIL
09/20/96   BOSQUE

0440 PM    3 N WHITNEY               TX   WIND DAMAGE
09/2v0/96   HILL                           WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF HOUSE

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.