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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2000, 7:05 PM CDT for Jack County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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
- Apr 30, 2000, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Jack County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bryson, TX | A brief touchdown by rain wrapped tornado was reported by an off duty National Weather Service meteorologist. |
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, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.9
- Supercell composite
- 30.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 010006 TORFTW TXC237-010100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 705 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JACK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 705 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF MARKLEY. ANOTHER STORM WAS CENTERED NEAR GRAHAM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE JACKSBORO... AND BRYSON. 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 YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3343 9840 3304 9840 3304 9797 3342 9798
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 30 min |
| Apr 30, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Jack | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 64 min |
| Apr 30, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 60 min |
| Apr 30, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 61 min |
| Apr 30, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 51 min |
| Apr 30, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 67 min |
| Apr 30, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Crane | 4 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Denton, Parker, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 45 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.