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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 28, 2000Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2000, 7:44 PM CST for Dallas County, Ellis County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 28, 2000, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 28, 7:55 PM CST	Tornado F0	Wilmer, TX

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
Mar 28, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 65 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1241 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 290146
TORFTW
TXC113-139-290215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
744 PM CST TUE MAR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY AND ELLIS COUNTY 

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 744 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED
  SPOTTERS BETWEEEN RED OAK AND LANCASTER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE FERRIS AND COMBINE

ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND LARGE HAIL 
CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN DALLAS COUNTY.  ALL
RESIDENTS OF DALLAS COUNTY ALONG AND EAST OF I 35 TAKE COVER NOW!e

LAT...LON 3258 9679 3252 9679 3247 9652 3259 9652

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 6:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell	65 min
Mar 28, 6:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	FWD	Tarrant	35 min
Mar 28, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Hill	60 min
Mar 28, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Parker	58 min
Mar 28, 6:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas	50 min
Mar 28, 6:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	35 min
Mar 28, 6:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	FWD	Tarrant	35 min
Mar 28, 6:43 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Tarrant	3 hr
Mar 28, 6:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	62 min
Mar 28, 6:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	67 min
Mar 28, 7:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Dallas	38 min
Mar 28, 7:10 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Dallas	3 hr
Mar 28, 7:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Navarro	46 min
Mar 28, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	45 min
Mar 28, 7:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Navarro	28 min
Mar 28, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	46 min
Mar 28, 8:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman	39 min
Mar 28, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	46 min
Mar 28, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt, Rains	42 min
Mar 28, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	62 min
Mar 28, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	40 min
Mar 28, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	39 min
Mar 28, 11:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin	50 min
Mar 28, 11:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hunt	38 min
Mar 29, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	44 min
Mar 29, 3:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.