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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT for Bosque County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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
- May 12, 2000, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Bosque 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KFWD 122241 TORFTW TXC035-122300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED CODING SHOULD BE TORFTW NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 537 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BOSQUE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 600 PM. * AT 537 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITNEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORfM WILL AFFECT THE SOUTHEAST PART OF BOSQUE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 3189 9750 3171 9736 3175 9731 3192 9742
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 45 min |
| May 12, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 45 min |
| May 12, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 56 min |
| May 12, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 63 min |
| May 12, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 31 min |
| May 12, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 56 min |
| May 12, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 55 min |
| May 12, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Collin | 32 min |
| May 12, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 25 min |
| May 12, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 37 min |
| May 12, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | McLennan | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Delta | 29 min |
| May 12, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 39 min |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 45 min |
| May 12, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta | 46 min |
| May 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 45 min |
| May 12, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 57 min |
| May 12, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 25 min |
| May 12, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.