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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Fort Worth, TX

March 10, 2000Bell County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 6:22 PM CST for Bell County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2000, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bell County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 6:45 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Belton, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 10, 6:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KFWD 110023
TORFTW
TXC027-110045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
622 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS

* UNTIL 645 PM.

* AT 622 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO CIRCULATION 6 MILES WEST OF
  MORGAN'S POINT RESORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TEMPLE...MORGANS POINT RESORT 
  AND BELTON.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BELTON AROUND 635 PM.
  TEMPLE AROUND 645 PM.

LAT...LON 3119 9753 3113 9758 3100 9740 3110 9732

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell	50 min
Mar 10, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Limestone, Robertson	50 min
Mar 10, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	43 min
Mar 10, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	22 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.