Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 9:33 PM CST for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
- Feb 22, 2000, 9:33 PM CST (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 230335 TORFTW TXC027-230400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 933 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 933 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO CIRCULATION 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KILLEEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SALADO...NOLANVILLE...LITTLE RIVER-ACADEMY...HOLLAND...HARKER HEIGHTS AND BELTON * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HARKER HEIGHTS AROUND 950 PM CST NOLANVILLE AROUND 955 PM CST BELTON AROUND 1005 PM CST 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 YDOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3106 9791 3093 9783 3080 9730 3108 9730
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 8:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 9:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 31 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.