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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 6:50 PM CDT for Coryell County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Coryell 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 |
| May 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 122351 TORFTW TXC099-130015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 650 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CORYELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF OGLESBY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF GATESVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AS THREATENING CLOUDS APPROACH FROM THE NORTH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 3148 9751 3149 9760 3115 9778 3130 9749
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, 6:01 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, 6:52 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.