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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 5:40 PM CDT for Palo Pinto County, Parker County, Texas. It was in force for 35 min. 10 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1999, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:47 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Millsap, TX | |
| Jun 1, 5:51 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mineral Wells, TX | |
| Jun 1, 5:51 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Millsap, TX | Hail fell at the Mineral Wells Airport which is in Parker County. |
| Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Mineral Wells, TX | |
| Jun 1, 6:03 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Mineral Wells, TX | |
| Jun 1, 6:03 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Millsap, TX | Hail fell at the Mineral Wells Airport which is in Parker County. |
| Jun 1, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Millsap, TX | |
| Jun 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Millsap, TX | |
| Jun 1, 6:14 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Millsap, TX | Hail fell at the Mineral Wells Airport which is in Parker County. |
| Jun 1, 6:18 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mineral Wells, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
615 WFUS1 KFTW 012242 RRA TORFTW TXC363-367-012315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 540 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PALO PINTO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS PARKER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MINERAL WELLS... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WEATHERFORD AND MINERAL WELLS * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COOL AROUND 550 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3290 9815 3270 9816 3264 9774 3285 9774
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, Jun 1, 12:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-012300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1207 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF NORTH TEXAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HE SLIGHT RISK AREA IS NORTH AND EAST OF AN ATHENS...BROWNWOOD...BRECKENRIDGE...BOWIE LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...SHERMAN...CORSICANA...MINERAL WELLS... JACKSBORO AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS. LATE THIS MORNING...A WEAK COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM OKLAHOMA CITY TO WEST OF WICHITA FALLS TO MIDLAND. THIS FRONT HAS MOVED VERY LITTLE DURING THE MORNING HOURS BUT IT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN A SLOW EASTWARD PUSH THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA IS ALREADY EXTREMELY HIGH. LIFTED INDICES AT 11 AM RANGED FROM -8 TO -10. THE STRENGTH OF THE CAPPING INVERSION HAS BEEN WEAKENING THIS MORNING...ESPECIALLY ALONG A LINE FROM BOWIE TO BRECKENRIDGE TO BROWNWOOD. THIS MORNINGS MODEL RUNS FORECAST THE CAP TO CONTINUE WEAKENING ALONG THIS SAME LINE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAN BREAK THE CAP WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL BE FROM VERY LARGE HAIL... POSSIBLY UP TO BASEBALL SIZE...AND DAMAGING WINDS. FORECAST WIND PROFILES ARE ALSO FAVORABLE FOR SUPERCELLS...SO TORNADOES CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION..AFTER 3 PM...WEST OF A LINE FROM GAINESVILLE TO MINERAL WELLS AND BROWNWOOD. SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED EAST OF THIS LINE ANYTIME AFTER 6 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 23 min |
| Jun 1, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton, Wise | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Grayson | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.