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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 6:53 PM CDT for Denton County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1999, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Denton County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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.
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, 11.9 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.
026 WFUS1 KFTW 012354 RRA TORFTW TXC121-497-020100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 653 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS REISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... WISE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT... * AT 653 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF JUSTIN...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... JUSTIN AROUND 755 PM... DO NOT STOP UNDER BRIDGES OR HIGHWAY OVERPASSES SINCE THEY OFFER NO PROTECTION FROM TORNADO WINDS. STOPPING INDER BRIDGES WILL BLOCK THE ROAD PREVENTING YOU AN OTHERS FROM REACHING SAFE SHELTER. LAT...LON 3314 9751 3301 9753 3300 9712 3317 9712
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, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.