Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 8:25 PM CDT for Van Zandt County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 12, 2000, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Van Zandt County, TX
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 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
062 WUUS54 KFWD 130128 SVRFTW TXC467-130215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 825 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VAN ZANDT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT. * AT 825 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FRUITVALE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF CANTON...MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AT 815 PM...THE VAN ZANDT COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR WILLS POINT. ANOTHER SERVER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTON. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNING AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH NO WARNING. MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO A STURDY STRUCTURE IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED OR THREATENING CLOUDS APPROACH. LAT...LON 3282 9594 3267 9605 3253 9563 3269 9560
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 12, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 537 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 A COLD FRONT THAT WAS SOUTHEAST OF A MCALESTER...TO FORT WORTH...TO BROWNWOOD LINE AT 20Z...WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH THE 18Z FWD RAOB INDICATED THAT WE STILL HAVE A STRONG CAP IN PLACE...COULD SEE SOME DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT EAST OF THE FRONT. WILL KEEP 20 PERCENT POPS IN THE METROPLEX AND WACO...AND 30 PERCENTS IN THE EAST. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THIS FRONT ARE NOT TERRIBLY COOL...WITH 70S BEING NOTED ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. THERE IS A WIDE DIVERGENCE IN THE FORECASTED HIGH TEMPERATURES BETWEEN THE FAN AND FWC GUIDANCE. CONSIDERING THE AMOUNT OF COOLING NOTED...AM LEANING CLOSE TO...BUT SLIGHTLY BELOW THE THE FWC GUIDANCE FOR SATURDAY. DRY WEATHER WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA SATURDAY THROUGH MIDWEEK. 58 DFW 62/82/56/83 2000 ACT 63/84/57/82 2000 .FTW...NONE. ...AVIATION DISCUSSION... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO ERUPT ALONG AND AHEAD OF SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. EXPECT STORMS TO BE SOUTH AND EAST OF METROPLEX AIRPORTS BY TAF ISSUANCE...BUT WILL NEED TO INCLUDE SOME THUNDER AROUND KACT FOR THE PERIOD 00-01Z. STORMS SOULD MOVE OUT OF THE KACT AREA AFTER 01Z. OTHERWISE...LOOK FOR WIND 340-360 OVERNIGHT THEN SHIFTING A BIT MORE NE TOMORROW. CLOUDS SHOULD BE LIMITED TO MID AND HIGH LEVEL...BEFORE BREAKING UP TOMORROW AFTERNOON. 80
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-130100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 406 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS EVENING...GENERALLY EAST OF A BONHAM...HILLSBORO...KILLEEN LINE. THE SLIGHT RISK AREA INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PARIS...SULPHUR SPRINGS...WACO...TEMPLE...PALESTINE... CORSICANA AND CENTERVILLE. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM NEAR A SHERMAN...TO CLEBURNE... TO LAMPASAS LINE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS FRONT WILL MOVE EAST/SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH AND MAY PROVIDE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM FORMATION. A WARM LAYER OF AIR...OR CAP...JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL BE A LIMITING FACTOR TO STORM DEVELOPMENT... HOWEVER...ANY STORMS WHICH DO MANAGE TO BREAK THE CAP HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE IN THE MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF THE FRONT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILES ARE NOT FAVORABLE FOR PRODUCING STRONG MESOCYCLONES...SO TORNADOES ARE NOT EXPECTED WITH THIS EVENT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND STORM SPOTTERS WEST OF A PARIS TO CORSICANA TO TEMPLE LINE SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION BETWEEN 500 AND 700 PM. ACTIVATION EAST OF THIS LINE IS POSSIBLE BETWEEN 700 AND 900 PM. FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER/THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOKS FOR ADJACENT AREAS...SEE OKCSPSOKC (NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA)... OKCSPSTUL (EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS)...NEWSPSSHV (NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS)...SATSPSHOU (SOUTHEAST TEXAS)... SATSPSSAT (SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS)...AND LBBSPSSJT (WEST CENTRAL TEXAS). 79
Local storm report, May 12, 7:41 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
741 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0445 PM LAKE WHITNEY TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 HILL QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED JUST EAST OF
THE LAKE BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0525 PM 3 NE LAGUNA PARK TX TORNADO
05/12/00 HILL DPS OFFICER REPORTS
TORNADO ON GROUND.
0540 PM PARKER TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 COLLIN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
IN PARKER BY SHERIFF.
0545 PM 2 SW LAGUNA PARK TX TORNADO
05/12/00 BOSQUE TORNADO REPORTED BY
SHERIFF MOVING TO THE
NE.
0555 PM 2 N LAMETA TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 LAMPASAS QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0555 PM MURPHY TX TORNADO
05/12/00 COLLIN TREES AND FENCES BLOWN
DOWN BY TORNADO.
REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0600 PM LAMETA TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 LAMPASAS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY SHERIFF.
0631 PM CHINA SPRING TX 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 MCLENNAN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0631 PM VALLEY MILLS TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 BOSQUE QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0645 PM COOPER TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 DELTA DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SHERIFF.
0655 PM FORNEY TX 0.75 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 KAUFMAN DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SHERIFF.
0711 PM LAMPASAS TX 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/12/00 LAMPASAS QUARTER SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 51 min |
| May 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 30 min |
| May 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 48 min |
| May 12, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 25 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 50 min |
| May 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 31 min |
| May 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 49 min |
| May 12, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 46 min |
| May 12, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 55 min |
| May 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 min |
| May 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 49 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.