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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 6:31 PM CDT for Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 55 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, 6:37 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Aurora, 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 30 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.
000 TTAA00 KFWD 012331 RRA TORFTW TXC497-020000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 631 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WISE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER RHOME...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3302 9756 3299 9741 3307 9738 3315 9745
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, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Cooke, Grayson | 33 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.