Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jan 1, 1999, 4:34 PM CST for Milam County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jan 1, 1999, 4:34 PM CST (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 1999, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Milam County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 514 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 542 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 12:30 PM CST, 4 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-020000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1230 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALL OF ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. A STRONG WINTER STORM CONTINUES TO EVOLVE AS IT MOVES INTO TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. AT THE SURFACE...A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WAS NEAR LUBBOCK AT NOON...WITH A PACIFIC COOL FRONT EXTENDING NORTH AND SOUTH FROM THE LOW. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW NEAR AN EASTLAND-TEMPLE-LUFKIN LINE. THE LOW CENTER WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ...TO NEAR THE WACO AREA BY EARLY EVENING. THE WARM FRONT WILL PROGRESS SLOWLY NORTH AS THE LOW DRIFTS SOUTHEAST. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS NEAR THE WARM FRONT AT NOON... EAST OF WACO. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM NEAR THE WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING A THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO OR TWO COULD OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS...MOST LIKELY IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER 3PM. OTHER STORMS WILL FORM NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT AS THE PACIFIC FRONT SURGES EAST. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND SOME DAMAGING WINDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING . MOST OF THE TORNADO ACTIVITY...IF ANY...LIKELY WILL OCCUR CLOSER TO THE WARM FRONT AND SURFACE LOW. SPOTTER GROUPS ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE ACTIVATED ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER MID-AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD END BY LATE EVENING AS THE PACIFIC AIR AND COLDER ARCTIC AIR SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...AND OTHER INTERESTED CONCERNS SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION. AN UPDATED SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT MIDDAY TO FURTHER DEFINE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 12:44 PM CST, 3 hours 50 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-020000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1244 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 ...CORRECTED FOR TYPO IN HEADER AND LAST LINE ELIMINATED... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STRONG WINTER STORM CONTINUES TO EVOLVE AS IT MOVES INTO TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. AT THE SURFACE...A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WAS NEAR LUBBOCK AT NOON...WITH A PACIFIC COOL FRONT EXTENDING NORTH AND SOUTH FROM THE LOW. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW NEAR AN EASTLAND-TEMPLE-LUFKIN LINE. THE LOW CENTER WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ...TO NEAR THE WACO AREA BY EARLY EVENING. THE WARM FRONT WILL PROGRESS SLOWLY NORTH AS THE LOW DRIFTS SOUTHEAST. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN PROGRESS NEAR THE WARM FRONT AT NOON... EAST OF WACO. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM NEAR THE WARM FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PRODUCING A THREAT OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO OR TWO COULD OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS...MOST LIKELY IN SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER 3PM. OTHER STORMS WILL FORM NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT AS THE PACIFIC FRONT SURGES EAST. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND SOME DAMAGING WINDS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING . MOST OF THE TORNADO ACTIVITY...IF ANY...LIKELY WILL OCCUR CLOSER TO THE WARM FRONT AND SURFACE LOW. SPOTTER GROUPS ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE ACTIVATED ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS AFTER MID-AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD END BY LATE EVENING AS THE PACIFIC AIR AND COLDER ARCTIC AIR SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS...STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...AND OTHER INTERESTED CONCERNS SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 1:02 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ091>094-101>105-116>121-130>134-144>147-158>162-174-175-012111- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 102 PM CST FRI JAN 1 1999 ...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NORTH TEXAS HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1 PM... THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY EAST OF A KILLEEN-MERIDIAN-MINERAL WELLS-BOWIE LINE AND WEST OF A CENTERVILLE-KAUFMAN-BONHAM LINE HAS EXPIRED AT 1 PM. VISIBILITIES HAVE BEGUN TO SLOWLY IMPROVE OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER PATCHY AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL REMAIN FROM THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX NORTH TO THE RED RIVER FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell, Milam | 26 min |
| Jan 1, 5:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 48 min |
| Jan 1, 5:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 32 min |
| Jan 1, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 33 min |
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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.