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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 12, 2000Delta County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 6:01 PM CDT for Delta County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Delta 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 122302
TORFTW
TXC119-122330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
601 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DELTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 601 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED
  SPOTTERS BETWEEN LADONIA AND PECAN GAP...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  COMMERCE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COOPER AROUND 625 PM CDT

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 DHEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3346 9586 3341 9588 3334 9571 3342 9568

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, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	23 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, 6:06 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.