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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1999, 12:45 AM CDT for Denton County, Wise County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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
- May 4, 1999, 12:45 AM CDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1999, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 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), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 2685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 14.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KFTW 040547 RRA TORFTW TXC121-497-040615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1245 AM CDT TUE MAY 4 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DENTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS WISE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 115 AM CDT * AT 1245 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF BOYD... MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORTED TORNADOES 2 MILES EAST OF BOYD AND 2 MILES EAST OF RHOME AT 1240 AM. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SANGER...KRUM...JUSTIN AND BOYD 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. 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. LAT...LON 3307 9757 3300 9733 3335 9712 3344 9756
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
Local storm report, May 3, 11:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1117 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1133 PM BRIDGEPORT TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/99 WISE
1145 PM RIVER OAKS TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/99 TARRANT
1203 AM RHOME TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/04/99 WISE
1203 AM BOYD TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/04/99 WISE
1210 AM RENO TX TORNADO
05/04/99 PARKER MOBILE HOME DESTROYED ON
OVERLAND TRAIL ROADLocal storm report, May 4, 12:17 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1117 PM CDT MON MAY 03 1999
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1133 PM BRIDGEPORT TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/99 WISE
1145 PM RIVER OAKS TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/99 TARRANT
1203 AM RHOME TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/04/99 WISE
1203 AM BOYD TX 1 INCH HAIL
05/04/99 WISE
1210 AM RENO TX TORNADO
05/04/99 PARKER MOBILE HOME DESTROYED ON
OVERLAND TRAIL ROADThe office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 51 min |
| May 3, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 45 min |
| May 3, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 52 min |
| May 4, 12:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 34 min |
| May 4, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 36 min |
| May 4, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 45 min |
| May 4, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 44 min |
| May 4, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 47 min |
| May 4, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 42 min |
| May 4, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 47 min |
| May 4, 12:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 34 min |
| May 4, 12:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 43 min |
| May 4, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 39 min |
| May 4, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 45 min |
| May 4, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 45 min |
| May 4, 1:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 24 min |
| May 4, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 44 min |
| May 4, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 51 min |
| May 4, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 46 min |
| May 4, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 40 min |
| May 4, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 23 min |
| May 4, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 53 min |
| May 4, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 51 min |
| May 4, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 28 min |
| May 4, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 50 min |
| May 4, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 41 min |
| May 4, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 36 min |
| May 4, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lamar | 35 min |
| May 4, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Hunt, Rains | 37 min |
| May 4, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 61 min |
| May 4, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains | 54 min |
| May 4, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 24 min |
| May 4, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 29 min |
| May 4, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Navarro | 50 min |
| May 4, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Henderson, Navarro | 50 min |
| May 4, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 50 min |
| May 4, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone | 56 min |
| May 4, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.