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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 2000McLennan County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 6:01 PM CDT for McLennan County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 2000, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County McLennan County, TX

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 12, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1679 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 355 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill45 min
May 12, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin45 min
May 12, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis56 min
May 12, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Hill63 min
May 12, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill31 min
May 12, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin56 min
May 12, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar55 min
May 12, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBosque23 min
May 12, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin32 min
May 12, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDRockwall25 min
May 12, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas37 min
May 12, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDelta29 min
May 12, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas39 min
May 12, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHunt45 min
May 12, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta46 min
May 12, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan45 min
May 12, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins57 min
May 12, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell25 min
May 12, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman53 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.