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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 27, 2000Hunt County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT for Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
May 27, 2000, 5:53 PM CDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Hunt County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado F0Wolfe City, TXTrees and power lines were blown down by a brief tornado.

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 nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2630 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 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 213 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.9

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The text

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

915 
WFUS54 KFWD 272253
TORFTW
TXC231-272330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
553 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 551 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED
  SPOTTERS NEAR LEONARD...IN FANNIN COUNTY...AT 545 PM.  THIS STORM 
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WOLFE CITY AROUND 600 PM CDT.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN HUNT COUNTY SHOULD FIND SHELTER NOW

LAT...LON 3336 9626 3318 9625 3324 9587 3342 9586

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung67 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung28 min
May 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung30 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack63 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung58 min
May 26, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague, Wise60 min
May 26, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke65 min
May 26, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton59 min
May 26, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson66 min
May 27, 1:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung64 min
May 27, 1:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack65 min
May 27, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack40 min
May 27, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung45 min
May 27, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung32 min
May 27, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens57 min
May 27, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack62 min
May 27, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson59 min
May 27, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto59 min
May 27, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton51 min
May 27, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise60 min
May 27, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens25 min
May 27, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke, Grayson56 min
May 27, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker65 min
May 27, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens60 min
May 27, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin43 min
May 27, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton, Tarrant50 min
May 27, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland53 min
May 27, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson67 min
May 27, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin57 min
May 27, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens63 min
May 27, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDenton42 min
May 27, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar41 min
May 27, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFannin32 min
May 27, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas33 min
May 27, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland58 min
May 27, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFannin30 min
May 27, 6:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFannin3 hr
May 27, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDelta, Lamar65 min
May 27, 6:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEastland3 hr
May 27, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDelta26 min
May 27, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis52 min
May 27, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHopkins66 min
May 27, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHopkins36 min
May 27, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.