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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 7:35 PM CDT for Bell 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, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 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.
| 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
487 WFUS54 KFWD 130037 TORFTW TXC027-130100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 735 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 735 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF KILLEEN...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE NEAR... KILLEEN AROUND 745 PM CDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR KILLEEN...HARKER HEIGHTS AND STILLHOUSE HOLLOW LAKE TAKE SHELTER NOW 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 HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3118 9763 3114 9779 3092 9783 3089 9762
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 51 min |
| May 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 30 min |
| May 12, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 48 min |
| May 12, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 50 min |
| May 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 31 min |
| May 12, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 49 min |
| May 12, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 50 min |
| May 12, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 46 min |
| May 12, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 55 min |
| May 12, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 45 min |
| May 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 49 min |
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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.