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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1999, 8:13 PM CDT for Comanche County, Erath County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 5 reports 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
- Jun 1, 1999, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1999, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Comanche County, TX, Erath County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:23 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Highland, TX | |
| Jun 1, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | De Leon, TX | |
| Jun 1, 8:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Morgan Mill, TX | |
| Jun 1, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Proctor, TX | |
| Jun 1, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dublin, TX | A tornado briefly touched down near Dublin. No damage reports were received. |
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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 3292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 28.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Erath | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 8:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 60 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.