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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 4, 1999Anderson County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1999, 6:40 PM CDT for Anderson County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 1999, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1999, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Anderson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 4, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Palestine, TX	A tornado briefly touched down north of Palestine. No damage was reported.

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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1720 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 393 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 21.0

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The text

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

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

Local storm report, May 4, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 3:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, May 4, 4:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 4, 4:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	51 min
May 3, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	45 min
May 3, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	52 min
May 4, 12:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Wise	34 min
May 4, 12:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Denton, Wise	30 min
May 4, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	36 min
May 4, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	45 min
May 4, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Wise	44 min
May 4, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hood, Parker	47 min
May 4, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	42 min
May 4, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	47 min
May 4, 12:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hood, Parker	34 min
May 4, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	43 min
May 4, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Tarrant	39 min
May 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Grayson	45 min
May 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke	45 min
May 4, 1:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin	24 min
May 4, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	44 min
May 4, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton	51 min
May 4, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Tarrant	46 min
May 4, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	40 min
May 4, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	23 min
May 4, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	53 min
May 4, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	51 min
May 4, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	28 min
May 4, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	50 min
May 4, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Lamar	41 min
May 4, 3:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	36 min
May 4, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	35 min
May 4, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	37 min
May 4, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Van Zandt	61 min
May 4, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains	54 min
May 4, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	24 min
May 4, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Kaufman	29 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Navarro	50 min
May 4, 4:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Navarro	50 min
May 4, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Kaufman	50 min
May 4, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone	56 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.