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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT for Tarrant County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 16, 2000, 1:29 AM CDT (06:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Tarrant 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 160630 TORFTW TXC439-160700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 129 AM CDT SUN APR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TARRANT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 129 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... FOREST HILL AROUND 135 AM CDT KENNEDALE AROUND 140 AM CDT LAT...LON 3278 9743 3256 9722 3267 9706 3286 9734
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| Apr 15, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 49 min |
| Apr 15, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 62 min |
| Apr 15, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 59 min |
| Apr 15, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Apr 15, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 28 min |
| Apr 16, 1:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 117 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.