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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 8, 1999Bosque County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1999, 8:21 AM CST for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 8, 1999, 8:21 AM CST (14:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 1999, 8:45 AM CST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bosque County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 8, 7:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Mar 8, 6:25 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-081800-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
625 AM CST MON MAR 8 1999

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER
ALONG AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO KAUFMAN TO FAIRFIELD LINE.

A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS
TODAY AND TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SQUALL LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AN ADVANCING DRY LINE. THESE STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING BURSTS OF WIND.

AT SUNRISE...THE DRY LINE WHICH SEPARATED WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE
GULF AIR FROM AN INTRUSION OF DRY AIR TO ITS WEST WAS LOCATED ALONG A
CHILDRESS TO BIG BEND LINE. THIS DRY LINE WILL REACH A SHERMAN TO
DALLAS FORT WORTH TO WACO LINE AROUND MIDDAY. THE BOUNDARY WILL ALSO
INTERSECT WITH AN ADVANCING WARM FRONT BETWEEN PARIS AND CANTON
DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WHEN A FEW SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS COULD
DEVELOP AND SPAWN ISOLATED TORNADOES MAINLY EAST OF A BONHAM TO
CORSICANA LINE.

ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE REQUIRED WEST
OF A GAINESVILLE FORT WORTH TO KILLEEN LINE THIS MORNING AND OVER
THE REMAINDER OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS EITHER LATE THIS MORNING OR
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Mar 8, 6:25 AM CST, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-081800-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
625 AM CST MON MAR 8 1999

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL TEXAS TODAY. THERE IS ALSO A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER
ALONG AND EAST OF A BONHAM TO KAUFMAN TO FAIRFIELD LINE.

A VIGOROUS UPPER LEVEL STORM WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTH TEXAS
TODAY AND TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SQUALL LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AN ADVANCING DRY LINE. THESE STORMS WILL BE
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING BURSTS OF WIND.

AT SUNRISE...THE DRY LINE WHICH SEPARATED WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE
GULF AIR FROM AN INTRUSION OF DRY AIR TO ITS WEST WAS LOCATED ALONG A
CHILDRESS TO BIG BEND LINE. THIS DRY LINE WILL REACH A SHERMAN TO
DALLAS FORT WORTH TO WACO LINE AROUND MIDDAY. THE BOUNDARY WILL ALSO
INTERSECT WITH AN ADVANCING WARM FRONT BETWEEN PARIS AND CANTON
DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS WHEN A FEW SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS COULD
DEVELOP AND SPAWN ISOLATED TORNADOES MAINLY EAST OF A BONHAM TO
CORSICANA LINE.

ACTIVATION OF SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS MAY BE REQUIRED WEST
OF A GAINESVILLE FORT WORTH TO KILLEEN LINE THIS MORNING AND OVER
THE REMAINDER OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS EITHER LATE THIS MORNING OR
EARLY THIS AFTERNOON.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 5:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung39 min
Mar 8, 6:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland, Stephens35 min
Mar 8, 6:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto35 min
Mar 8, 7:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise34 min
Mar 8, 9:06 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson39 min
Mar 8, 9:16 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant119 min
Mar 8, 9:16 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDDallas119 min
Mar 8, 10:00 AM CSTTornado WarningFWDHill, McLennan30 min
Mar 8, 10:09 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDHunt, Kaufman, Rockwall2 hr
Mar 8, 10:09 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis2 hr
Mar 8, 10:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan30 min
Mar 8, 11:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Limestone44 min
Mar 8, 11:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone40 min
Mar 8, 12:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.