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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Fort Worth, TX

February 22, 2000Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 9:59 PM CST for Bell 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
Feb 22, 2000, 9:59 PM CST (03:59 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2000, 10:30 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bell County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 22, 7:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 230402
TORFTW
TXC027-230430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
959 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 959 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF TEMPLE 
  ...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TROY...AND TEMPLE.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  TEMPLE AROUND 1010 PM CST
  TROY AROUND 1015 PM CST



LAT...LON 3116 9760 3101 9750 3110 9715 3129 9739

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 6:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland46 min
Feb 22, 8:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas53 min
Feb 22, 9:33 PM CSTTornado WarningFWDBell27 min
Feb 22, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.