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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2000, 6:27 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 30, 2000, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Young County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Graham, TX | A brief touchdown was reported by an off duty National Weather Service meteorologist. |
| Apr 30, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Newcastle, 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, 11.5 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
- 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 302329 COR TORFTW TXC503-010015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 627 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 715 PM CDT * AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM...CENTERED JUST NORTH OF NEWCASTLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE FROM NEAR NEWCASTLE...TO NEAR LOVING THROUGH 715 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3329 9881 3318 9876 3318 9849 3336 9849
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, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.