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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2000, 5:52 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2000, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Young County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 5:53 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Olney, TX | |
| Apr 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Olney, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 302253 TORFTW TXC503-302330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 552 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... YOUNG COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 552 PM CDT...A DANGEROUS STORM WAS CENTERED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLNEY...MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES MPH. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE TORNADOES. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE OLNEY THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LkAT...LON 3338 9891 3324 9884 3328 9846 3339 9855
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 1:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 54 min |
| Apr 30, 3:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 6:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 6:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 7:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 62 min |
| Apr 30, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 48 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.