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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 6:27 PM CDT for Cooke County, Grayson County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cooke County, TX, Grayson County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Collinsville, TX | |
| Jun 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Whitesboro, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
344 WFUS1 KFTW 012330 RRB TORFTW TXC097-181-020000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 627 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COOKE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS GRAYSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF VALLEY VIEW MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD GUNTER. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE WHITESBORO AND COLLINSVILLE IF IN A MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. LAT...LON 3351 9727 3339 9712 3363 9678 3379 9698
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, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 35 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, 6:31 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.